Re: [opensuse-packaging] Re: VBoxGuestAdditions.iso in openSUSE:Factory

Hi, Am 20.12.2010 14:19, schrieb Alexey Eromenko:

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Michal Šebeň wrote:

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Hi all,

after virtualbox licensing change, I received (again) requests to include VBoxGuestAdditions.iso (now fully open sourced) to our virtualbox package - this iso (~35MB) contains scripts, windows and linux binaries for additional features on virtualbox guests, problem is that we can't prepare this ISO in our buildservice (because we can't build windows binaries) so we have to grab prepared ISO by oracle team from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/ and put it to the rpm subpackage

what do you think about this step ? is it a standard way ?

note: user could always download VBoxGuestAdditions.iso using menu in GUI (with 2-clicks)

The goal of any distro is to provide all the features without using 2-clicks... If tomorrow Oracle site goes down, or they become proprietary, and close VirtualBox, then what ?

Then we solve the problem and don't break our head about it now.

As Richard Stallman puts it, this is called "careless computing". We should not depend on Oracle for such critical functionality, and provide the ISO as part of the distro.

IMHO this is not careless. If Oracle fails the last built RPM stays in the repo. If the RPM building would fail if it cannot download the ISO then the package maintainer would get a chance to act. One could also checking the ISO as a binary artifact into OBS as Source1: in the SPEC file. That way of course the maintainer would need to update the ISO if there is a new one, but this is probably the main job of the maintainer anyway. I would like to see the ISO shipped with the distro... Kind Regards, Schlomo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org