Re: Which VirtualBox repo to use?

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On 04/07/18 10:15, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>
>
> On 07/04/18 11:34, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> 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)?
>

I don't have any "recommendation" as I really think it is a personal preference. 
But, FWIW, I used rpm2cpio to unpack the Oracle package and the
following RPMfusion rpms

akmod-VirtualBox-5.2.8-3.fc27.x86_64.rpm
python-VirtualBox-5.2.8-2.fc27.x86_64.rpm
VirtualBox-5.2.8-2.fc27.x86_64.rpm
VirtualBox-devel-5.2.8-2.fc27.x86_64.rpm
VirtualBox-guest-additions-5.2.8-2.fc27.x86_64.rpm
VirtualBox-kmodsrc-5.2.8-2.fc27.noarch.rpm
VirtualBox-server-5.2.8-2.fc27.x86_64.rpm
VirtualBox-webservice-5.2.8-2.fc27.x86_64.rpm

The major difference in size is caused by VBoxGuestAdditions.iso being supplied in
Oracle but not in RPMfusion.  I don't have the RPMfusion stuff installed but I'm
guessing it must get built or something at some point.

[egreshko@meimei Vbox]$ find ./Oracle/ -name *iso
./Oracle/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
[egreshko@meimei Vbox]$ find ./Fusion/ -name *iso
[egreshko@meimei Vbox]$


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