Why there aren't Fedora 30 packages?

[luisg.muniz]

I've noticed that the packages available to download (http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... 30/x86_64/) are prepared for Fedora 29 and Fedora 31, but no for Fedora 30.

Does anyone know why?

[Martin]

The F31 packages in that directory are wrong, they don't work for 29 and 30.
The VirtualBox Fedora 29 packages also work in Fedora 30 therefore the repository path for 30 is redirected to 29 and Oracle doesn't need to build a specific f30 package with exactly the same content as the f29 package.

[luisg.muniz]

The F31 packages in that directory are wrong, they don't work for 29 and 30.

Looks like there is a single, common directory holding packages for all Fedora releases. Not a big problem, thought.

[...] and Oracle doesn't need to build a specific f30 package with exactly the same content as the f29 package.

But then, why not provide just a (sym)link with the proper name? That won't use more disk space, and also won't force a novice user to guess that he/she needs to install the f29 version while on a f30.

Moreover, it would ease scripting.

[Martin]

The F31 packages in that directory are wrong, they don't work for 29 and 30.

Looks like there is a single, common directory holding packages for all Fedora releases. Not a big problem, thought.

On Fedora 30 it is a problem, because DNF sees the F31 package in the repo as "newer" and install this.