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

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 12:03 +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> 
> >Looks good to me. Do we still need virtualbox-source listed then ?
> 
> 
> 
> In my opinion yes, the virtualbox-modules isn't installable by
> repository,
> but only with virtualbox-source and by dpkg-buildpackaging it
> (it produces a deb file with Provides: virtualbox-modules).
> 
> so it is needed I guess, because there is no dependency between the 
> -source and the -modules
> otherwise.

rrs at learner:~/Community/Packaging/multipath-tools (master)$ apt-cache
show virtualbox-source 
Package: virtualbox-source
Source: virtualbox
Version: 5.0.4-dfsg-2
Installed-Size: 795
Maintainer: Debian Virtualbox Team <
pkg-virtualbox-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Depends: build-essential, bzip2, debhelper (>= 9), kbuild, module
-assistant
Description-en: x86 virtualization solution - kernel module source
 VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range
 of x86 operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BSD or Linux to run on
a
 Linux system.
 .
 This package provides the source code for the virtualbox kernel
module.
 The virtualbox package is also required in order to make use of these
 modules. Kernel sources or headers are required to compile this
module.
Description-md5: acc86918ad52775dbe11e2ad558ba197
Homepage: http://www.virtualbox.org/
Tag: admin::kernel, admin::virtualization, implemented-in::c,
role::source
Section: contrib/kernel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/contrib/v/virtualbox/virtualbox-source_5.0.4-dfsg
-2_all.deb
Size: 745684
MD5sum: 8b48902082c9262fffb4417d5dd5e81f
SHA1: 9e6ad5dc7a29bea5b343f08edea5ffadeed5487f
SHA256:
13c32a261601d8b033dd177fa282c80fc637878adec82c004deba713b0999b71

2015-09-28 / 22:17:10 ♒♒♒  ☺    


This package details gives no info about virtualbox-modules package. So
from a higher level package manager's point of view, it won't be able
to establish that connection. And I think  same would apply to most end
users.

Maybe we should add a one-liner into its pkg description ?


-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System
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