[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#553918: Bug#553918: virtualbox-ose-source: Please, make dkms a recommendation.

[Michael Meskes]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:01:40PM +0100, Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> > I don't really see where the security problem is here. Would you mind
> > explaining it?
> 
> Say you built your kernel as user foo on one machine.
> ...

I beg to disagree. This doesn't appear to be a security problem in
virtualbox-ose but bad admin work. However ...

> I think virtualbox should do it like other similar packages which build kernel 
> modules:
> 
> virtualbox-ose-source for building binary-modules as self-sufficent 
> deb-packages
> 
> virtualbox-ose-dkms for the dkms approach
> 
> Sehe batman-adv-source|dkms or openafs-modules-source|dkms

This is a better approach, I simply didn't think about this. Will fix for 3.1.0.

Michael
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