Hello Daniel! On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 18:55:40 +0200 Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: virtualbox-ext-pack > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > thank you for maintaining virtual-ext-pack in Debian. > > I have a few suggestions on how to improve the user experience but > before sending patches, I would like to ask your opinon on it. > > > 1. keeping vbox-ext files > ------------------------- > > currently virtualbox-ext-pack downloads the ext-pack file, installs it, > and keeps the downloaded file saved in /usr/share/virtualbox-ext-pack > (~19MB). > > imho, packages that download stuff should treat any downloaded files as > 'temporary' files, i.e. they should download, install, and remove any > afterwards unsed files to not increase runtime-diskusage unecessary. on > a dpkg-reconfigure, the package should just re-download the necessary files. > > would you accept a patch(es) to.. > > .. remove the ext-pack file after successfull installation of the > extension? > > .. if not, would you agree having a debconf question to make it > conditional (so that users get asked, if they want to keep it > which would then default to 'yes')? > > > 2. contents of the ext-pack extension > ------------------------------------- > > the virtualbox-ext-pack extension currently contains binaries for linux > (amd64, i386), macosx (amd64), solaris (amd64), and windows (amd64, > i386). the extension is only usable together with virtualbox, i.e. > virtualbox uses only the ext-pack parts for the operating system and > architecture it is running on (regardless what guest operating > systems/architectures are used). > > on linux (amd64), removing the other-os/arch files saves 35MB (53MB > total size, 18MB amd64 binaries). > > ever since the introduction of extensions in virtualbox, these files are > simply gzip compressed tarballs without any cryptographic signature, > only containing a simple manifest (md5/sha256/sha512 checksums). > > would you accept a patch(es) to.. > > .. removing all unecessary other-os/arch files after installation > of the extension? > > as a datapoint wrt/ to the extension meta-data: i'm doing this in > my unofficial package for years and never had any problems since > the meta-data in the extension never changed (and if it would, > it could be easily adapted), see: >
You are free to join the team, and commit what you think is the best approach :) I think I already remove old files, but not current files after installation. Please change, push, upload as you wish, as long as testsuite keeps working, and the package too! Gianfrancoo
