Author: anonym Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Help needed on #5972: Fix virtualbox guest modules
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16/05/14 09:52, sajolida@??? wrote: >>> Anyway, I'm absolutely not sure I'll be able to fix that before the
>>> freeze. I'd rather concentrate on the documentation upgrades. So if any
>>> VirtualBox user want to have a look...
>>
>> I haven't done a code review yet, but it looks very promising to me so
>> expect this to be merged in time for 1.1.
Done now, all looks good. My only non-blocker issues are the following:
1. To avoid binary bloat in Git, why not generate the fake gcc-4.8
package (with `equivs-build`) in the hook? I know we cannot access
`deb-src/gcc-4.8/control` inside live-build's chroot (we will when/if
we move to 3.x) but we could just put it somewhere in
`config/chroot_local-includes/` and remove it in the
`98-remove_unwanted_files` hook.
2. Why not `apt-get remove` the fake gcc-4.8 after we're done with the
DKMS stuff? It's not needed after that, and won't break anything,
unless I've misunderstood something. The presence of that fake
package could actually confuse users that want to install gcc in
Tails.
What do you think? If you don't have the time, I can commit to fixing at
least 2.
>> A potential follow-up is how to document the shortcomings. Known issue,
>> perhaps?
>
> Ah yes, I should do that so I'm marking them as "Dev needed".
