On 07/04/18 11:34, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 04/06/2018 05:57 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
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
[trimmed]
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
The additive sizes of all the rpmfusion packages may not match what the
virtualbox repo offers because a) they are packaged differently; and b)
there MAY be things rpmfusion doesn't include because inclusion in
rpmfusion might violate a copyright or patent--and Fedora/Red Hat try
really hard to NOT violate copyrights and patents.
Is it then recommended to install from rpmfusion? This will allow me to disable the virtualbox
repo (always good to reduce the number of sources)?
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