virtualbox-guest-additions

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

When using the VirtualBox menu item "Install Guest Additions" it says it cannot find the guest additions and offers to download them. It seems like a better idea for MacPorts to provide them.

I don't know if the virtualbox port should just always download and install them, or if they should be a separate subport. The attached patch implements the latter approach, but if we think that every user will always need the guest additions, then we can just add them to the main port.

Roy, I'm Cc'ing you since you've done the most work on virtualbox lately. Any opinions on this?

[royliu@…]

Hi Ryan,

We might have to do something like this:

​https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=29433

-Roy

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The summary of that 2007 thread seems to be that VBoxGuestAdditions.iso was only available inside the VirtualBox non-OSE binary and that the Arch Linux folks wanted permission to distribute it separately, and got it by asking nicely.

But these days, it is available separately, and I assume it is under the Virtual Box Personal Use and Evaluation License, which doesn't allow redistribution, but we can easily enough ask our server admin to add an exclusion for this and other similar extensions (like #31180). I've updated the attached patch to indicate this license.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

proposed patch

[anddam (Andrea D'Amore)]

Cc Me!

[anddam (Andrea D'Amore)]

owner is already notified

[pixilla (Bradley Giesbrecht)]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Subport added in r91905.

Our admin already set up a mirror exclusion for this subport so that we won't be mirroring the distfile. And the license is not in the list of distributable licenses, so that'll keep us from distributing the archive.