On 07/04/18 10:02, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 04/07/18 07:03, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
On 04/04/18 13:21, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
I have been using VirtualBox for a long while. Looking at what rpms are available
I see:
$ dnf list '*VirtualBox*'
Last metadata expiration check: 19 days, 23:03:27 ago on Thu Mar 15 14:29:34 2018.
Installed Packages
VirtualBox-5.2.x86_64 5.2.8_121009_fedora26-1
@virtualbox
Available Packages
VirtualBox.x86_64 5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-5.1.x86_64 5.1.34_121010_fedora26-1
virtualbox
VirtualBox-devel.i686 5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-devel.x86_64 5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-guest-additions.x86_64 5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-kmodsrc.x86_64 5.1.22-1.fc26
rpmfusion-free
VirtualBox-kmodsrc.noarch 5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-server.x86_64 5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-webservice.x86_64 5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
akmod-VirtualBox.x86_64 5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
kmod-VirtualBox.x86_64 5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
python-VirtualBox.x86_64 5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
Which repo [virtualbox (Oracle) or rpmfusion] should one use?
Is Oracle simply a more up-to-date repo? Does rpmfusion packages actually fetch
the Oracle rpm, or is rpmfusion a separate, full build?
The size difference is significant:
rpmfusion VirtualBox-5.2.8-2.fc26.x86_64.rpm 8.1MB
virtualbox VirtualBox-5.2-5.2.8_121009_fedora26-1.x86_64.rpm 69 MB
If the two are different: if I change to use the rpmfusion repo, will the VMs be
compatible?
TIA
Anyone? Should be an easy question for someone who knows?
See https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ
Since RPMFusion is using the VirtualBox name they would be required to follow the
license. Specifically:
"The term “VirtualBox” has been registered by Oracle as a trademark in various
countries. If you choose to ship custom binaries and/or source code revisions of the
product, you may not use the VirtualBox name in those versions."
Therefore, RPMFusion has built their packages from Oracle's source and have decided
to package things in multiple rpms as opposed to a single rpm like Oracle has done.
They have also modified the way kernel modules are built when the kernel packages get
updated.
And, since they are using the VirtualBox name they must not have made any changes
such that a VM created on their release would be incompatible with the Oracle release.
So, using either one is fine and pretty much just a personal choice.
Thanks. Looking at the huge difference in size between the two sources, I wonder if
rpmfusion broke the single package from virtualbox into separate packages. The size
still does not fully add up though.
Does anyone know what is different between the two sources? I mean, why would rpmfusion
put the effort for no added value? Maybe the virtualbox repo includes fluff that rpmfusion
removed?
$ sudo dnf install VirtualBox
====================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
====================================================================================
Installing:
VirtualBox x86_64 5.2.8-2.fc26 rpmfusion-free-updates 8.1 M
Installing dependencies:
VirtualBox-kmodsrc noarch 5.2.8-2.fc26 rpmfusion-free-updates 801 k
VirtualBox-server x86_64 5.2.8-2.fc26 rpmfusion-free-updates 15 M
akmod-VirtualBox x86_64 5.2.8-3.fc26 rpmfusion-free-updates 31 k
akmods noarch 0.5.6-12.fc26 updates 24 k
kmodtool noarch 1-24.fc26 fedora 16 k
Transaction Summary
====================================================================================
Install 6 Packages
Total download size: 24 M
Installed size: 66 M
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Eyal Lebedinsky (fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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