SRC RPM's ?

asv · Post by **asv** » 16. Jul 2007, 17:21

I'm looking to create a SLES10 compatible binary rpm. Can anyone point me to a location of SRC rpms for Virtualbox?

Thanks,

Alex

Technologov · Post by **Technologov** » 16. Jul 2007, 18:47

This project doesn't offers any SRPMs - only .tar.bz2 sources.

For SUSE SRPMs look here:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159

asv · Post by **asv** » 16. Jul 2007, 19:05

Unfortunately it appears that there are only OpenSuse rpms. I need the src rpms to make SLES10 compatible rpms. My guess is that the project doesn't provide the src rpms deliberately, in order to make it harder for people redistribute, which is typical of the dual license (semi-open) type projects.

I don't have the time to go through the effort to build an rpm from scratch based on a tarball, so I guess my evaluation of virtualbox will never get off the ground.

Technologov · Post by **Technologov** » 16. Jul 2007, 19:14

I believe you should take openSUSE RPMs and convert them to SLES RPMs - it shouldn't be too hard because distros are brothers.

And speaking about semi-open products: look at SLES first - this product isn't even available as freeware download for Home use, while VirtualBox is.

asv · Post by **asv** » 16. Jul 2007, 21:22

Technologov wrote:I believe you should take openSUSE RPMs and convert them to SLES RPMs - it shouldn't be too hard because distros are brothers.

And speaking about semi-open products: look at SLES first - this product isn't even available as freeware download for Home use, while VirtualBox is.

http://www.opensuse.org/, and Suse provides source rpms for almost every package they distribute, which makes it easy to rebuild any SLES package.

http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=ubXOUwNOp9s~

The problem is that the OpenSuse rpm relies on a Dbus version that cannot be upgraded. Upgrading the Dbus to the OpenSuse version would break a ton of dependencies.

Its not a problem, I just won't be able to evaluate virtualbox. We will just continue to use vmware.

Technologov · Post by **Technologov** » 16. Jul 2007, 21:27

You still have alternative: evaluate the closed-source version: (since you're using VMware, the freedom purity question won't arise)

go to:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

choose version:
All distributions i386 | AMD64

This should work on SLES 10.

asv · Post by **asv** » 16. Jul 2007, 23:29

Technologov wrote:You still have alternative: evaluate the closed-source version: (since you're using VMware, the freedom purity question won't arise)

go to:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

choose version:
All distributions i386 | AMD64

This should work on SLES 10.

A binary tarball does not meet our requirements, since we use a configuration management system that depends on rpm for mass deployment. We cannot deploy applications for mass testing based on tarballs.

asv · Post by **asv** » 16. Jul 2007, 23:33

BTW, this situation reminds me of a similar experience:

http://alexvalentine.org/?p=429

SRC RPM's ?

SRC RPM's ?

thanks