Summary: | virtualbox-modules-5.1.36 fails to get kernel version from running kernel | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | groepaz |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
groepaz
2018-05-22 15:25:20 UTC
As the name of the package suggests, app-emulation/virtualbox-modules builds kernel modules - and for that you need kernel sources, or to be precise kernel sources which have been configured and prepared for building external modules ('make modules_prepare'). No kernel sources, no modules. Packages like x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput are different in this respect because while they depend on certain kernel features to be enabled (or sometimes disabled) they do not actually build any kernel modules, making it possible for emerge to continue even if all the ebuild finds is the kernel config file. then at least the line * Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version for build, attempting to use running version shouldnt be there - i'd still call that a bug |