[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#597290: virtualbox-ose: Missing kernel headers dependency?

Felix Geyer debfx-pkg at fobos.de
Sat Sep 18 13:56:17 UTC 2010


 On 09/18/2010 03:36 PM, clayton wrote:
> It seems to me there should be a dependency in virtualbox for the headers, and failing that, a message 
> telling me it might be a good idea to check whether they are installed would be nice.
It would be dkms's job to ensure that the kernel headers are installed.
The problem is that it can't do that with a package dependency as there
are different kernel flavours (686, xen-686, amd64, ...).

I agree that we need to improve the error message.






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