[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#454348: Okay, but won't fix just floored me when I know something isn't right here

[Dennis Eckhaus]

Thanks so much for clarifying this.  My understanding is that for now, 
what I'm doing by putting a hold on virtualbox-ose-source so it won't 
upgrade to the new version that doesn't look like module-assistant can 
work with is the correct procedure.  But this will be all settled and 
working normally once we get 2.6.23 kernels ready to go. 

This, on Lenny, is with the 1.5.2 version of Virtualbox stuff, but by 
the time all this is sorted it'll be 1.5.4 and the new kernel sources 
and modules builders all coming into Lenny at the same time so 
everything will be working again.

Cool.  As long as I can use Virtualbox in the meantime.  Too bad about 
the Nvidia drivers though.  As I've said, we have (in a way I don't 
understand but it doesn't really matter) an older source for Virtualbox 
1.5.2 available for module assistant to work with but NVidia doesn't.  
So for that we are forced to use the downloaded NVidia binary from 
nvidia.com.  I managed to remove the Sid sources, purge 
xserver-xorg-core and friends and all the Debian nvidia stuff, reinstall 
the Lenny versions (along with putting back the gnome stuff), and 
install the NVidia binary.  So actually this is nice in a way because I 
no longer need to mix distributions (got rid of apt.conf too).  All 
fully Lenny now.

To sum up, yeah things don't exactly jive right now but it'll be fixed 
up shortly so this bug will no longer exist.  At least I hope it's 
shortly.  Depends upon how soon the 2.6.23 kernels are ready for Lenny 
acceptance.