[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#556595: Bug#556595: virtualbox-ose-source: missing dependency on kbuild

Marc Haber mh+debian-bugs at zugschlus.de
Thu Nov 19 22:21:42 UTC 2009


Hi,

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:56:37PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:46:56AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > much uncleaner than the old-fashioned ways that build .debs and then
> > proceed to install them. And it doesn't allow to separate "building"
> > and "running" on two different systems.
> 
> Nobody forces you to use dkms.

What is the alternative? virtualbox-modules-source now contains the
sources twice, once for the traditional methods (thanks for that, I
really appreciate that), and once for DKMS. Is that really a viable
long-term solution?

Greetings
Marc

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