Hey there! I've write a small script to download, compile and package the VBox OSE from SVN, to a .deb for Ubuntu Edgy. For now the "only" thing missing is guest additions, for both Linux and Windows. The linux part is just a matter of finding out which files need to be included, and pack them. The Windows additions, on the other hand, might be a bit more complicated since i don't have any Visual Studio copy at hand.
All the deb structre is a rip-off from the .deb from 1.3.8 from Innotek (dpkg -e and dpkg -X)! I even let the .png and .desktop stay, but removed RDP, SharedFolders and all documentation. (If this approach, at any level, goes against some politics form Innotek, PLEASE let me know). One thing thou! For the moment i've just thrown everything needed in the /opt/VirtualBox-1.3.99 directory (i.e., the .so, .r0, .gc and all binaries). For some reason that i can't figure out now (too tired!), it doesn't work if the .so are in /usr/lib and /usr/lib/virtualbox, like in the PUEL version. Maybe some one at Innotek can shed some light at the matter. The script, as well as the .tar.gz with the basic structure to build the .deb package follow attached. You will need dpkg, svn and all the requirements to compile VirtualBox as described at http://www.virtualbox.de/wiki/Linux%20build%20instructions. Just run the build-svn.sh and at the end you should get a virtualbox-svn-$VERSION_NUMBER.deb. As always, any suggestions and improvements over the original script are welcome! Cheers, KM
vbox-deb.tar.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data
build-svn.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
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