Re: [Tails-dev] Help needed on #5972: Fix virtualbox guest m…

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Author: sajolida
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Help needed on #5972: Fix virtualbox guest modules build
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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.


Ok, that's commit 0a11342 now.

> 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.


That's commit 9182bbc now.

>>> A potential follow-up is how to document the shortcomings. Known issue,
>>> perhaps?


That's commit 348945e.

I want to rewrite the whole virtualization documentation as part of
#7143, so I just updated the known issues on that one.

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sajolida