** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose
  
  On Ubuntu Hardy alpha 4:
  
  When installing virtualbox-ose with aptitude, it installs the -386
  kernel image unnecessarily and virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-5-386
  instead of the -generic one.
  
  virtualbox-ose-modules has been a virtual package, provided by all the 
different flavours of the module (-386, -generic, ..). But apt fails to find 
the "best path" when selecting a package: it seems to always chose the -386 
one, although using the -generic one would have to pull less dependencies in 
(in particular the linux-image-386).
  Also when using real meta packages (instead of virtual packages), the problem 
persist.
  
  Is this a packaging problem with virtualbox-ose-modules or is apt
  missing the expected feature? Is there a way to provide better hinting?
+ 
+ WORKAROUND: Install the virtualbox-ose-modules-$flavor package manually, e.g.:
+ $ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-modules-generic virtualbox-ose
+ 
+ (AppArmor seems to be affected by a similar/the same issue, see bug
+ 148586)

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Installing virtualbox-ose-modules pulls in 386 kernel (on -generic)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/188579
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