[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#502375: Dependancy problems?

[David Clymer]

It appears that the issue discussed in most of the emails for this bug
report did not address the root of the reported problem.

The version of virtualbox-ose-modules (1.6.2) in Lenny do not match the
version of virtualbox-ose (1.6.6). Although one can build the correct
modules with module assistant, aptitude is constantly wanting to replace
the 1.6.6 module with the old (and incompatible) 1.6.2 module.


shakazulu:/var/cache/apt/archives# aptitude install virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-amd64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-amd64 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 45.3kB of archives. After unpacking 1757kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://apt.hrcsb.org lenny/main virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-amd64 2.6.26+1.6.2-dfsg-4 [45.3kB]
Fetched 45.3kB in 0s (519kB/s)                          
Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-amd64.
(Reading database ... 124299 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-amd64 (from .../virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-amd64_2.6.26+1.6.2-dfsg-4_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-amd64 (2.6.26+1.6.2-dfsg-4) ...
Reading package lists... Done             
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done         

shakazulu:/var/cache/apt/archives# modinfo vboxdrv
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-amd64/extra/virtualbox-ose/vboxdrv.ko
version:        1.6.2_OSE (0x00070002)
license:        GPL
description:    VirtualBox Support Driver
author:         Sun Microsystems, Inc.
srcversion:     6B5C0862CA2306A1F17E574
depends:        
vermagic:       2.6.26-1-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions 
parm:           force_async_tsc:force the asynchronous TSC mode (int)
shakazulu:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-cache policy virtualbox-ose
virtualbox-ose:
  Installed: 1.6.6-dfsg-3
  Candidate: 1.6.6-dfsg-3
  Version table:
 *** 1.6.6-dfsg-3 0
        500 http://apt.hrcsb.org lenny/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


-davidc

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