From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 13 17:05:03 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741061065672; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:05:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@bluelife.at) Received: from groupware.itac.at (groupware.itac.at [91.205.172.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035CF8FC21; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:05:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from home.bluelife.at (93.104.210.95) by groupware.itac.at (Axigen) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 3C647D; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:49:34 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:49:26 +0200 From: Bernhard Froehlich To: Bob Bishop In-Reply-To: <3095B667-A2DD-40A6-95FE-0A59DEF853CF@gid.co.uk> References: <3095B667-A2DD-40A6-95FE-0A59DEF853CF@gid.co.uk> Message-ID: X-Sender: decke@bluelife.at User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.5.1 X-AxigenSpam-Level: 1 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A0B0209.4DA5D415.0111,ss=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future direction of virtualbox-ose port on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:05:03 -0000 On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:24:09 +0100, Bob Bishop wrote: > Hi, > > On 13 Apr 2011, at 12:38, Bernhard Froehlich wrote: > >> Hi VirtualBox users. >> >> I'm sending this because there are a few problems in how we currently >> maintain the emulators/virtualbox-ose ports on FreeBSD. [etc] > > A question: woud there be any advantage in separating out the kernel > module from the rest of it? Just asking, because I have no idea about > the stability of the components and interfaces. You mean a separate port for the kernel module? Yes, emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod is exactly that. Sorry if I was not clear enough but everyone will be able to use the binary packages but if he has a STABLE kernel he will have to compile the corresponding -kmod port nevertheless. Using old kernel modules with newer VirtualBox versions is not supported (especially not between major versions which we are talking about here). -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/