[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] How do you build the

[Michael Meskes]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:01:09AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote:
> Now the version is created in a way that keeps apt from downgrading the 
> package during an upgrade, and I no longer have to keep the package set 
> to "hold".

Which is exactly what will happen once lme is rebuild.

> On a side note, I am pretty disappointed in the treatment of the bug reports 
> surrounding this issue.  I cannot be convinced that this isn't a bug when the 
> modules provided in the mirror render the virtualbox-ose package as unusable.  

At the very least this is NOT a virtualbox-ose bug as the module package is
provided my linux-modules-extra-2.6. Not to blame these guys, this package
hasn't been updated since virtualbox-ose 1.6.6 made it into the archive
probably because the kernel is still in a state of flux. However, there simply
is nothing the virtualbox-ose packagers can do about this.

> Building the modules with module-assistant also makes modules that won't be 
> installed via apt due to the conflict between the versioning methods of 
> module-assistant and linux-modules-extra.  I don't think that just closing 

Well this is how things work. If you don't like the hassle just wait a little
bit until things settle. After all we are not talking about a stable release
but about a system that is being prepared for a release. Development versions
tend to be less stable than released version.

> the reports as resolved is the appropriate response.  I think that the 
> reports should be merged into a single bug, and that bug left open until the 
> new version of l-m-e is released, ridding the archive of the modules packages 

I thought about this too, but this would be a pure letting-people-know bug
report that would be listed against a package that simply does not even build
the binary that creates the problem. Besides the general situation is
documented.

> that won't be used.  Also, if the module packages are not going to be 
> supplied with the future versions of virtualbox-ose, then there should be a 
> debconf warning that explains that the user will need to build their own 
> modules before using the application.  Waiting for the user to discover this 
> after the application is running isn't really good (I will help with this and 
> write the template if y'all want to do this).

This is the very nature of a -source package.

Michael
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