[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#800077: virtualbox: Cannot install 5.0.4-dfsg-3 with just modules

Gianfranco Costamagna costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it
Mon Sep 28 07:00:13 UTC 2015


Hi


>Thanks, but I beg to disagree : you need
>
>virtualbox-dkms OR virtualbox-source  ** OR virtualbox-modules **
>
>I compile modules on one machine and use them on several others.  Why force 
>me to install the module sources, kernel headers, and all the rest if I
>already have the compiled modules ?


sure, this is a perfectly valid use-case :)
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/commit/?id=41a45bc76907ad2921e4ad50fc6c1b8fba45fad4

committed, on git, can you please tell me if it works for you?


I also changed the dependency to >= instead of =, because the kernel modules should work even if from
other virtualbox versions.

(I'm specially thinking about getting a new dkms and keep an old virtualbox, just because the kernel has been upgraded)

@Ritesh, how do you feel about that commit?

cheers,

Gianfranco



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