Bug 324033

Summary:	app-emulation/virtualbox-ose should not inform about new upstream versions
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Fabian Köster <gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Patrick Lauer <patrick>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	polynomial-c, swapon
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	320595
Bug Blocks:
Attachments:	ebuild which unsets VBOX_WITH_UPDATE_REQUEST

Description Fabian Köster 2010-06-14 22:58:57 UTC

When the user installs virtualbox-ose via Portage the application should not report about new upstream versions which are available.

There is a configuration variable in src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/Makefile.kmk:

# Show the update notifier dialog during startup. If this setting is disabled
# the user can still update using the menu if desired.
VBOX_WITH_UPDATE_REQUEST := 1

I append an example ebuild which fixes this bug for version 3.0.12.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Fabian Köster 2010-06-14 22:59:49 UTC

Created attachment 235329 [details]
ebuild which unsets VBOX_WITH_UPDATE_REQUEST

Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-06-16 10:10:11 UTC

Could you please test if this is still an issue with virtualbox-ose-3.1.8? I've
been told in #vbox that this is no longer a problem with >=virtualbox-3.1

In case you don't know how to install a not yet stable virtualbox here's a
small on-eliner:

  for pkg in $(qlist -CIq virtualbox) ; do echo "~${pkg}-3.1.8" >>
/etc/portage/package.keywords ; done

You need qlist from app-portage/portage-utils package to make the above
one-liner work.

Comment 3 Fabian Köster 2010-06-16 12:21:49 UTC

I removed .VirtualBox, emerged virtualbox-3.1.8, started it and there is neither an update-message, nor a registration-request, so this should be fixed in 3.1.8 (and above?)

Comment 4 Fabian Köster 2010-07-14 16:03:30 UTC

app-emulation/virtualbox-3.1.8 got stable on x86 and amd64 (#bug 320595), so this is fixed too.