Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

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On 11/22/2011 12:13 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 06:00:43PM +0100, 80 wrote:
> 
>> The failure is due to Fedora *non-upstream* versionning scheme,
>> VirtualBox has *already* fixes the API/ABI issue upstream relying on
>> the kernel version (since 3.2 RC).  It has nothing to do with the
>> kernel non-stable ABI policy (which is notorious).
>> The least we can do is helping third-party packagers to fix this
>> issue, not slamming the door on their face.
> 
> The supported way to provide a module for Fedora is to have it in the 
> upstream kernel source. Anything else is explicitly not supported.
> 


  For those having trouble - one pragmatic way is just to download the
f16 3.1.x source rpm and rebuild it on F15 - VB will now work fine.

  Of course - caution drove the renaming of this kernel to 2.6.41 so it
could break ... that said it does work fine for me ...

  gene/
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