[vbox-dev] IPS package

[Thomas Gouverneur]

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? 

--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



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/20140331/182b9a0f/attachment.html>