[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#502375: closed by Daniel Baumann <daniel at debian.org> (reply to daniel at debian.org) (Re: Bug#502375: virtualbox-ose: kernel modules and application do not match)

[Clayton]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:48:19 +0200
Daniel Baumann <daniel at debian.org> wrote:

> 2. Install virtualbox-ose-source, as root:
> 
> 	apt-get install virtualbox-ose-source

Thanks Daniel, we found the missing piece of information, above, and I
am back in business.

Needless to say, I don't often build from source and I am not a frequent
user of m-a, which says on its man page:

"auto-install | a-i
auto-install  is  followed  by  one or more packages
desired for installation. It will run prepare to configure  your
system  to build  packages, get the package source, try to build it for
the current kernel and install it....."

The part in question is "get the package source", which sounds to me
like it absolves me of the responsibility for getting the source. At
least that is how I read it. Is the man page wrong or incomplete?

Thanks again,
Clayton