[vbox-dev] IPS package

[ramshankar venkataraman]

On 31/03/2014 23:06, Thomas Gouverneur wrote:
>
> Ram,
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> 1. Yes
>
> 2. Yes, considering that you need to run an 'svcadm restart 
> virtualbox-run-once' service that gets installed with the first 
> installation. Then, when an upgrade is done, this service is 
> responsible to upgrade drivers and/or services at its next start. (so 
> either manually, or, indeed after a reboot).
>
> Does that make sense?
>

So it requires manual running of a service to make the upgrade work? Is 
it possible to automate this somehow as part of the IPS upgrade 
procedure itself?

Regards,
Ram.

> --Thomas
>
> Le 2014-03-31 13:49, Ramshankar a écrit :
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for the work and the heads up, but before I look into this, a 
>> couple of questions:
>>
>> 1. Does the installation work without requiring reboots (drivers are 
>> loaded and active after installation)?
>>
>> 2. Does upgrading VirtualBox versions work without requiring reboots 
>> (old drivers are unloaded, removed and new ones are installed and 
>> loaded) ?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ram.
>>
>> On 03/30/2014 03:42 PM, Thomas Gouverneur wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I'm writing today because I've been asked some time ago to write a 
>>> converter from SVR to IPS packages for VirtualBox to allow the 
>>> installation of VirtualBox and of the extension pack through IPS. I 
>>> wonder now if this work can be useful upstream too?!
>>>
>>> I published the scripts there:https://github.com/tgouverneur/VBox-SVR2IPS
>>> And an example repository can be found there:http://mdma.igh.cnrs.fr/vbox/en/catalog.shtml?show_all_versions=1&action=Refresh
>>>
>>> The repository has been built with the VirtualBox.org's packages converted using the scripts present inside the GitHub repository listed below.
>>>
>>> NOTE: This repo has only been tested with Solaris 11.1.
>>>
>>> Any idea with who I could start the discussion to see what would those package be missing to allow a possible upstream adoption, so we can all have IPS upstream packages of VirtualBox in the future?
>>>   
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --Thomas
>>>
>>>
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>
> -- 
> --Thomas

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