[arch-general] virtualbox-host-modules

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Mon Apr 8 08:46:41 EDT 2013


Hi,

where should be the modules? Last time there was the claim _not_ in
extramodules.



# pacman -Qi virtualbox
Depends On     : virtualbox-host-modules

# pacman -Ql virtualbox-host-modules
/usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.8-ARCH/vboxdrv.ko.gz
/usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.8-ARCH/vboxnetadp.ko.gz
/usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.8-ARCH/vboxnetflt.ko.gz
/usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.8-ARCH/vboxpci.ko.gz

# ls
3.8.4-rt2-1-rt  3.8.6-1-ARCH  extramodules-3.8-ARCH  extramodules-3.8-rt

# ls extramodules-3.8-ARCH
vboxdrv.ko.gz  vboxnetadp.ko.gz  vboxnetflt.ko.gz  vboxpci.ko.gz  version

# ls 3.8.6-1-ARCH/kernel/misc/
vboxdrv.ko  vboxnetadp.ko  vboxnetflt.ko  vboxpci.ko



I deleted the modules in extramodules and kept the ones build by the hook.

It would be nice if virtualbox-host-modules could become an optional
dependency.

Regards,
Ralf



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