VirtualBox

Opened 14 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#7747 closed defect (wontfix)

VirtualBox rpm package for Fedora does not include gcc as a dependency

Reported by: mansour Owned by:
Component: installer Version: VirtualBox 3.2.10
Keywords: fedora, rpm Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: Linux

Description

VirtualBox-3.2.10 rpm package does not include gcc as a dependency. As a result, the kernel module fails to compile on systems with no gcc installed. Attached is the install log.

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vbox-install.log (2.0 KB ) - added by mansour 14 years ago.

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Change History (3)

by mansour, 14 years ago

Attachment: vbox-install.log added

comment:1 by Technologov, 14 years ago

+1. Hmmm. This applies to other distros as well.

-Technologov

comment:2 by Frank Mehnert, 14 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

We will not add this dependency. The reason is that this dependency is usually added by DKMS or by the corresponding kernel-devel package. The other problem is that gcc is not necessarily the package which is required for compiling the kernel headers. For instance, on Debian/Lenny the correct package is gcc-4.1 for linux-headers-2.6.26, for linux-headers-2.6.32 it is gcc-4.3. The Debian packages have a recommendation for DKMS but unfortunately the concept of recommending packages does not exist for rpm-based packages.

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