[vbox-dev] Links to ExtPack downloads are not the revision-numbered ones

[Alexey Eromenko]

Assume someone compiled an OSE Virtualbox. Revision will not match with
extpack and official Virtualbox.
Virtualbox will start complaining and give warnings about wrong ext pack
version.
This trick, removal of revision, solves the warning problem.


On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 at 23:06 Kalogrianitis Socratis <socratisk at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On 19/Ιαν/2019, at 22:30, Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Revision could change especially for self compiled OSE builds.
>
> Alexey, I'm talking about the links on the website www.virtualbox.org,
> not the self-compiled ones. And there's no self-compiled ExtPack, unless
> you're getting your paycheck from Oracle... ;)
>
>
> I went to the web.archive.org and it seems that this behavior changed
> somewhere between 5.2.8 and 5.2.10.  Check the links here:
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20180301041632/https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
>
> for the ExtPack with the revision in the filename:
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20180301041632/https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.2.8/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.2.8-121009.vbox-extpack
>
>
> versus here:
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20180430210412/https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
>
> for the ExtPack without the revision in the name:
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20180430210412/https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.2.10/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.2.10.vbox-extpack
>
>
> I know it's splitting hairs right now, I just thought it was weird and
> something I might have missed. I always thought the revision to be part of
> the download filename, just like the main VirtualBox modules are.
>
>
> Socratis

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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
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