[aur-general] [Proposal] Cleaning up some Virtualbox packages on AUR

[Ionut Biru]

On 02/15/2010 05:08 PM, Panos Filip wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Panos Filip<panosfilip at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hello to everyone :)
>>
>> There seem to some Virtualbox ( or virtualbox related) packages we don't
>> really need:
>>
>> *1) aur/dkms-virtualbox 1.5.0-1 (Out of Date) (4)  *
>>
>> *What is that exactly ?*
>>
>> *2) aur/vboxapi 3.1.2-1 (1)*
>>      SDK for VirtualBox (Personal Use Binaries Edition)
>>
>> *That one as well ?*
>>
>> *3)aur/virtualbox_bin-1 1.6.6-1 (18)*
>>      Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)
>> *4)aur/virtualbox_bin-2 2.2.4-1 (24)*
>>      Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)
>>
>> *3 and 4 -->  do some people really need older and unsupported (with less
>> features or buggier) releases for Virtualbox ?*
>>
>>
>> *5) aur/virtualbox_bin-3_0 3.0.12-1 (18)*
>>      Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)
>>
>> *What about that ? -->  Like 3 and 4, but different PKGBUILD for version
>> 3.0 and different for 3.1 ?*
>>
>> *6)aur/virtualbox_bin 3.1.2-2 [installed] (2101)*
>>      Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)
>>
>> *We do want this one, it's OK*
>>
>> *7)aur/virtualbox_bin_beta 3.0.0_BETA2-1 (Out of Date) (37)*
>>      Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)
>>
>> *OK, check this one ...hmm*
>>
>>
>> *8)aur/virtualbox_bin_unstable 3.1.4_BETA2-1 (0)*
>>      Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)
>>
>> *We have one beta and one unstable (a.k.a beta) ? *
>>
>> *9)aur/virtualbox-legacy_bin 1.5.6-5 (4)*
>>      Powerful x86 virtualization - binary version (non GPL - free for
>> personal use and evaluation)
>>
>> *Another one like  3 , 4  and 5 !*
>>
>> *10)aur/virtualbox-sun 3.1.2.56127-6 (45)*
>>      A general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware (Binary Edition,
>> Personal Use)
>>
>> *What's the difference with 6 ? *
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Panos Filip
>>
>
> Bumping the thread, since we do need some cleaning up, IMHO.
i've deleted unstable build some time ago but the other:

virtualbox_bin-3_0  should stay at 3.0.x version but who did updated 
didn't understand this thing.
virtualbox_bin should follow the latest version of virtualbox
virtualbox_bin_beta  should follow only beta but same as first, the 
current maintainer didn't get it.
virtualbox-sun is basically _bin and changes should merge to _bin and 
then we can delete it.

i could delete the older ones if the modules doesn't compile anymore but 
i think we should let them there and try to fix the builds above. The 
one that are out of date should be updated or somebody should claim them.

-- 
Ionut