On 07/17/2011 11:21 AM, Greg KH wrote:
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 03:55:51PM +0200, Tim wrote: No, if the virtualbox kmp is in the tumbleweed repo, it will cause breakage for people who use it when the updated kernel breaks any update for it. I would prefer temporary breakups than it not working at all without user interaction. And as there is no "support" from the vendor for this code, there's not much I can do sorry. I have heard of people using the virtualbox repo that is built against tumbleweed fairly successfully, and recommend doing that if you really are stuck using virtualbox. Ok, I will search for a separate Tumbleweed Virtualbox repository.
I wouldn't call it stuck. Virtualbox is much more user friendly than Qemu/KMS. I tried to Switch to KMS but imho it can't compete in the area of Desktop virtualization besides being to complicated for the use case.
In general I would prefer something like DKMS for openSUSE. It is stupid that a kernel version is "hardcoded" in one version while the sources are available and other Kernels are supported. With DKMS we wouldn't have the problem now I suppose. Heh, no, it would be the same problem, DKMS doesn't solve this at all. When I have upgraded my Kernel in Debian or Ubuntu all the packages which needed separate modules were still working since they were compiled against the current Kernel after installation. Of course this did/does only work if the new Kernel is supported by the module source. In Opensuse if I use a different kernel all these packages doesn't work since they only have precompiled modules. Another disadvantage is that even with every (bigger?) official Kernel update the modules have to be updated.
I don't see the problem with the compilation during installation besides the need for some extra packages?
packagesA MozillaThunderbird 5 upgrade with the compatible Enigmail would be great. It is already in factory. What packages specifically are you looking for? Mozilla Thunderbird 5 and its dependency. The current Thunderbird Enigmail addon would break with the new version so it would needed to be updated too I suppose. I am not sure if there are other Thunderbird addons in the repository.
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