[Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! take 6

Danny Braniss danny at cs.huji.ac.il
Tue Sep 8 14:09:07 UTC 2009


> Danny Braniss wrote:
> > [...]
> >   
> >>>> ok, so some time has passed, but virtualbox-2.2.51r20457.tar.gz is no
> >>>> longer available, there is a
> >>>> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/virtualbox-2.2.51r20457.tar.bz2
> >>>> then again in ports/emulatores/virtualbox the version is 3.0.51r22226,
> >>>>
> >>>> can someone please explain?
> >>>>         
> >
> > hi, the above was my question, which was totally ignored, not nice.
> > I will try and refrase it:
> > the call for testing is for a version (2.2.51r20457) which is not available, while
> > the ports is 3.0.51r22226, so while I managed to compile it, it complains that COM
> > is not running, all this under 8BETA-3, both under 32 and 64 bit.
> > thnaks,
> > 	danny
> >
> >   
> The call for testing went out on 11th june
> (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-June/008061.html)  
> I can only assume it was considered tested and working as the port was
> committed on 15th june
> (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/emulators/virtualbox/Makefile?rev=1.1;content-type=text%2Fplain)
> 
> Since then there have been 4 updates to the port. The last of which
> updated it to 3.0.51r22226 on august 14th.
> 
> I would say the call for testing is no longer valid, please use the
> version in ports.

thank you, and all those involved!
	danny




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