Confirmed - by removing acpica from the Staging, virtualbox succeeded again. Can you please take care of that? (either by fixing or linking up with the virtualbox maintainer)

https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:L/virtualbox/standard/x86_64

I will see what I can do. I'm not really pleased that every time that package gets updated, virtualbox breaks!

Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar) - almost 5 years ago

reviewer

Understandable...

In anzycase: please only submit once the currently pending submission has been accepted. This is in a currently green Staging, waiting for a check-in slot (so, no rush with a fix)

I expect the current submission to be checked in by Thursday evening

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Larry Finger (lwfinger) - almost 5 years ago

I saw VB 6.1.2 in the 20200201 snapshot, and then tried a new build using openSUSE:Factory:Staging:M as an alternative project. Unfortunately, that project still uses the old acpica. Which project has the new one?

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Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar) - almost 5 years ago

reviewer

you can use --alternative-project hardware

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Larry Finger (lwfinger) - almost 5 years ago

Now, I am thoroughly confused. Building against that alternative project does not fail. Is it possible that there was an OBS glitch?

Yes, acpica is a VirtualBox requirement as the VB build includes compilation of the BIOS for virtual machines.

The -fno-common option likely explains the difference between the failure with Staging:M and the correct build with acpica version 20200110 using hardware as an alternativeproject. The resulting VB packages work correctly for Windows XP, 7, and 10, FreeDOS, and TW and Leap 15.2 virtual machines.

Thanks for looking into this issue. We might avoid some problems if I were notified the next time that acpica is updated so that I can test against your project before it gets pushed upstream. VB consumes at least 1 hour of OBS time per build, and the failures seem to happen near the end of the build, as Murphy's Law would predict. :) If we coordinate, we might push some of this development time onto my local machines.

Thomas Renninger (trenn) - almost 5 years ago

source maintainer

I have added user lwfinger to the acpica devel project as "Reader". Whatever that means, I hope you get notifications on requests, etc.

You may want to use: osc requestmaintainership and friends to remove this one and request reviewer if you do not get notifications.

Thanks for the heads up!