Hello, >Hello all (especially distribution package maintainers), >Hans de Goede from Redhat suggested a nice simple solution for stopping >our Additions and distribution Additions packages from treading on each >other's feet: a well-known file - >/usr/sbin/vbox-uninstall-guest-additions - which can be executed to >uninstall the currently installed Additions, say by executing "dnf >remove virtualbox-guest-additions" or whatever is appropriate. This is >implemented in our Additions as of public svn r66387[1] and should be in >any future 5.1 series Additions too. It would be great if distribution >packages could also add this. It does not need to remove kernel modules >which are part of a distribution kernel package as long as they are not >in a location which clashes with ours (ours live in >/lib/modules/<version/misc).
>[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/66387/vbox/trunk so, if I read correctly, before installing our guest-stuff we should check if that file is available, and blindly call it? I'm not sure about the consequences of this, e.g. should I replace that file at the end, so you do the same when the Debian version is installed? Should I also check the content of the file, to undestand if that file is owned by a previous version of the packaged guest- tool? I mean, in upgrades that file will be always available, because AFAIU I have to provide it to you too. I'm not confortable in implementing such a change without having a clear and common way of doing it. I see lots of corner cases that will probably make things worse if not correctly implemented. I have to admit, I mostly never received bug reports because of such issue, so I would like to be really sure about such changes (and I usually update virtualbox to stable Debian/Ubuntu releases too, so I have to triple check each change for stability). Has any other packager already implemented such a solution? thanks, and sorry for the late answer, Gianfranco (Debian and Ubuntu vbox maintainer) _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
