[aur-general] Virtualbox kernel modules and initscript?

David J. Haines dhaines at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 19:02:42 EDT 2011


On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> Am Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:30:39 -0400
> schrieb "David J. Haines" <dhaines at gmail.com>:
>
>> By the way, thanks to the maintainer(s) for the change. It was a
>> really odd way of handling things before.
>
> I mean, I don't mind, but is it really such a big difference if you
> have to run the script /usr/bin/vboxbuild instead of the
> script /etc/rc.d/vbox setup every time you have updated either the
> kernel or virtualbox except that it's less typing?
>
> Btw., wouldn't vboxbuild fit better to /bin or /usr/sbin instead
> of /usr/bin since it has to be run as root?
>
> Heiko
>

Oh, it's not a big difference, but just feels wrong having
non-runlevel related things in /etc/rc.d.


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