On 05/16/2015 11:50 AM, John Tall wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:41 AM, jd1008 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 05/13/2015 04:33 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>> On 05/13/2015 02:34 PM, jd1008 wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I am curious as to why Oracle decided not to build and distribute >>>>> VB built with latest Fedora release. >>>>> >>>>> I sent the question to Oracle. Awaiting their reply. >>>>> >>>> The RPMs are there: >>>> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/21/ >>> >>> That is a symlink to the Fedora 18 builds. >>> >> And you are offering an explanation???? >> >> There are no builds of VM built under fc21 >> on the VB website!!!! >> That is why they are labeled as fedora18. >> The apps and libs are all built under fc18. >> Once you install the rpm on fc21, then the >> installer will build the fc21 modules, assuming >> the installer has kernel-dev for fc21's kernel >> version installed. > > If the binary works on Fedora 18 and above then what's the problem > with only providing a single binary for all of them?
++1 Binary > compatibility is perhaps not that great all the time on GNU/Linux, but > when it works I don't see a reason for not using it. Right! > > John > Joachim Backes -- Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel-4.0.3-301.fc22.x86_64 Joachim Backes <[email protected]> https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
