On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:03, TJ <[email protected]> wrote: > New VirtualBox releases are coming thick and fast. On July 15, Oracle > released version 4.0.12. Yesterday, four days later, version 4.1.0 was > released. > > At this rate, it's going to be next to impossible for the repositories to > keep up, and to remain viable for all users they may not even want to try. > > If a user wants to try it on his own, what would be the best procedure? I > had originally thought that for now the Oracle-supplied Mandriva rpms would > probably work, but I've read that they won't because they use a version of > Python different from that of Mageia. > > They do work with a small workaround ( http://dodonov.net/blog/2011/07/19/upstream-virtualbox-openssl-versions-on-mandriva/ ).
We were actually discussing it with misc on cooker yesterday, and from what I understood they won't be supported out-of-the-box by Mageia unless Oracle starts to recompile their packages with openssl 1.0.0. -- Eugeni Dodonov http://eugeni.dodonov.net/
