Re: [aur-general] [Proposal] Cleaning up some Virtualbox packages on AUR

On 02/15/2010 05:08 PM, Panos Filip wrote:

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Panos Filip wrote:

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Hello to everyone :)

There seem to some Virtualbox ( or virtualbox related) packages we don't really need:

*1) aur/dkms-virtualbox 1.5.0-1 (Out of Date) (4) *

*What is that exactly ?*

*2) aur/vboxapi 3.1.2-1 (1)* SDK for VirtualBox (Personal Use Binaries Edition)

*That one as well ?*

*3)aur/virtualbox_bin-1 1.6.6-1 (18)* Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition) *4)aur/virtualbox_bin-2 2.2.4-1 (24)* Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)

*3 and 4 --> do some people really need older and unsupported (with less features or buggier) releases for Virtualbox ?*

*5) aur/virtualbox_bin-3_0 3.0.12-1 (18)* Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)

*What about that ? --> Like 3 and 4, but different PKGBUILD for version 3.0 and different for 3.1 ?*

*6)aur/virtualbox_bin 3.1.2-2 [installed] (2101)* Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)

*We do want this one, it's OK*

*7)aur/virtualbox_bin_beta 3.0.0_BETA2-1 (Out of Date) (37)* Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)

*OK, check this one ...hmm*

*8)aur/virtualbox_bin_unstable 3.1.4_BETA2-1 (0)* Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)

*We have one beta and one unstable (a.k.a beta) ? *

*9)aur/virtualbox-legacy_bin 1.5.6-5 (4)* Powerful x86 virtualization - binary version (non GPL - free for personal use and evaluation)

*Another one like 3 , 4 and 5 !*

*10)aur/virtualbox-sun 3.1.2.56127-6 (45)* A general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware (Binary Edition, Personal Use)

*What's the difference with 6 ? *

Regards,

Panos Filip

Bumping the thread, since we do need some cleaning up, IMHO. i've deleted unstable build some time ago but the other:

virtualbox_bin-3_0 should stay at 3.0.x version but who did updated didn't understand this thing. virtualbox_bin should follow the latest version of virtualbox virtualbox_bin_beta should follow only beta but same as first, the current maintainer didn't get it. virtualbox-sun is basically _bin and changes should merge to _bin and then we can delete it. i could delete the older ones if the modules doesn't compile anymore but i think we should let them there and try to fix the builds above. The one that are out of date should be updated or somebody should claim them. -- Ionut