* Marvin Renich <m...@renich.org> [150923 07:52]: > What might work, ..., and then use dpkg triggers to start the > vbox service after all packages in the dpkg installation run have been > configured.
If I understand correctly how dpkg triggers work, this could cause a restart of vbox before the module is installed, but then it should also cause a second restart after it is installed. (I.e. you could get a spurious failing restart in the middle, but when the dust settles, all should be well.) This is caused by apt and aptitude breaking up large installations into multiple calls to dpkg. Each call to dpkg will cause the triggers to be run, so if apt(itude) happens to separate the vbox and vbox-dkms installations into separate runs of dpkg, vbox might be restarted the first time with the wrong module, but it will be corrected in a subsequent run. This assumes correctly using Recommends instead of Depends. As I (and others) said earlier, not only is Pre-Depends wrong, but Depends is also wrong in this situation. ...Marvin
