[vbox-dev] IPS package

[Thomas Gouverneur]

Ram, 

As far as I'm aware, there's no way to automatise it,
although I find it better than nothing to benefit from the IPS packaging
rather than the SVR one. 

On another side, we can still display a big
fat warning when the user is trying to install/upgrade with the
instructions to get this done the proper way. 

What do you think? Could
this be integrated? 

--Thomas 

Le 2014-04-02 11:29, ramshankar
venkataraman a écrit : 

> 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 [1]
>>>> And an example
repository can be found there:
http://mdma.igh.cnrs.fr/vbox/en/catalog.shtml?show_all_versions=1&action=Refresh
[2]
>>>> 
>>>> 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
>>>>

>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> vbox-dev
mailing list
>>>> vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
>>>>
https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev [3]
>> 
>> -- 
>>
--Thomas

-- 
--Thomas
 

Links:
------
[1]
https://github.com/tgouverneur/VBox-SVR2IPS
[2]
http://mdma.igh.cnrs.fr/vbox/en/catalog.shtml?show_all_versions=1&action=Refresh
[3]
https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/attachments/20140402/6da3edf9/attachment.html>