DMGs/PKGs are wonderful! I'm glad that VirtualBox offers them. For most users, a DMG containing a PKG is perfect. For more complex systems in which VirtualBox is but one piece of the puzzle (Vagrant, Docker), the lack of a Homebrew formula means hours wasted setting up a development environment.
Specifying a certain version of VirtualBox, downloading installation materials, extracting files, installing the software, and checking if a certain version of VirtualBox is installed--these kinds of things are best done with a package manager recipe. That's why we see not just a .deb for Debian/Ubuntu, but a virtualbox package in the official Ubuntu Package repo<http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=virtualbox&searchon=names&suite=raring§ion=all>. And not just a .msi for Windows, but a VirtualBox package in the Chocolatey repo <http://chocolatey.org/packages?q=virtualbox>. Again, one-click installers are fantastic! It's just that a little more work is required for sysadmins when configuring systems out of hundreds of packages, on hundreds of computers at once. Would someone be interested in writing a Homebrew <http://brew.sh/> formula for Mac users? I can't wait to "brew install virtualbox" like in Ubuntu. On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Klaus Espenlaub <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On 16.08.2013 18:36, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > > I love how Ubuntu users can install VirtualBox with "apt-get install > > virtualbox", and Windows users can install VirtualBox with "chocolatey > > install virtualbox"! > > > > Could we complete the trifecta with a Homebrew <http://brew.sh/> formula > > for Mac users? They'll be able to "brew install virtualbox", and that > > would make lots of people happy! > > I don't get it... what's stopping you from doing a fully automated > install of what we ship in the .dmg package? Mounting a dmg is not > rocket science (thought that Mac OS users know this, using hdiutil). > > "installer -pkg /path/to/mounted/dmg/VirtualBox.pkg" does all the work, > and one can unmount the dmg afterwards. > > There's nothing missing from what I can tell... > > Klaus > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev >
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