Yippee! Thanks so much! And I'll read through the template shortly. On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 3:49 AM, Emmanuel Kasper <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi Asheesh & Antonio > >> First thanks for the interest on these boxes. > >> > >> After some second thought, I agreee on that. > >> I will re enable the vboxfs in the Vagrant Box and move that to a > >> "contrib" namespace. > >> > > > > Yay! Thanks so much. > > > > BTW, one other note: > > > > The VirtualBox shared files kernel module appears to be fully free > > software. It seems to be an accident of history that the kernel modules > > live in the same source package as the VirtualBox BIOS; see my mail here: > > > https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-virtualbox-devel/2015-December/005610.html > > Hi Asheesh > Yes, it is also my opinion that the kernel modules could be moved to > main, (similar to the vmware guest kernel modules, which are all in main > since they're included in the vanilla kernel) > Now splitting a source package of the size of virtualbox looks anything > but trivial for me, but you might have more experience there ! > > In the meantime, I have created a box with the vboxsf module at > debian/contrib-jessie64. > > I will push the definitive packer template when the debian scm server > works again, if you want to co maintain or maintain the template. > > Emmanuel > > > > > > > > > > >
