On 04/07/18 10:15, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
On 07/04/18 11:34, Rick Stevens wrote:
> The additive sizes of all the rpmfusion packages may not match what the
> virtualbox repo offers because a) they are packaged differently; and b)
> there MAY be things rpmfusion doesn't include because inclusion in
> rpmfusion might violate a copyright or patent--and Fedora/Red Hat try
> really hard to NOT violate copyrights and patents.
Is it then recommended to install from rpmfusion? This will allow me to disable the
virtualbox
repo (always good to reduce the number of sources)?
I don't have any "recommendation" as I really think it is a personal
preference.
But, FWIW, I used rpm2cpio to unpack the Oracle package and the
following RPMfusion rpms
akmod-VirtualBox-5.2.8-3.fc27.x86_64.rpm
python-VirtualBox-5.2.8-2.fc27.x86_64.rpm
VirtualBox-5.2.8-2.fc27.x86_64.rpm
VirtualBox-devel-5.2.8-2.fc27.x86_64.rpm
VirtualBox-guest-additions-5.2.8-2.fc27.x86_64.rpm
VirtualBox-kmodsrc-5.2.8-2.fc27.noarch.rpm
VirtualBox-server-5.2.8-2.fc27.x86_64.rpm
VirtualBox-webservice-5.2.8-2.fc27.x86_64.rpm
The major difference in size is caused by VBoxGuestAdditions.iso being supplied in
Oracle but not in RPMfusion. I don't have the RPMfusion stuff installed but I'm
guessing it must get built or something at some point.
[egreshko@meimei Vbox]$ find ./Oracle/ -name *iso
./Oracle/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
[egreshko@meimei Vbox]$ find ./Fusion/ -name *iso
[egreshko@meimei Vbox]$
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