VirtualBox blueports repository moved to redports.org

[Brandon Gooch]

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Brandon Gooch
> <jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Bernhard Froehlich <decke at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Hi VirtualBox Testers!
>>>
>>> I think it's the right time now to announce that the virtualbox blueports
>>> repository that a few of you were using moved to a new location.
>>>
>>> That is because in the last few months I was heavily working on a new
>>> FreeBSD port building cluster called redports.org which is also the
>>> new environment where I usually build test all virtualbox versions and
>>> the new home of VirtualBox for FreeBSD. redports.org is the successor
>>> of the blueports repository but the history was migrated so nothing is
>>> lost.
>>>
>>> Since last week I am back to my usual virtualbox work and have already
>>> pushed a few very interesting patches from Andriy Gapon and Ed Schouten
>>> upstream. All ports are at their latest available versions now so we
>>> are _not_ lagging behind in the development repository. I just do not
>>> want to push those versions in the tree before 9.0-RELEASE is out the
>>> door. So I am currently waiting for 9.0 to be released and then I will
>>> update our virtualbox-ose ports to 4.1.8 and virtualbox-ose-legacy to
>>> 4.0.14.
>>>
>>> If you want to test the latest versions have a look at the new repository:
>>>
>>> - virtualbox-ose 4.1.8 (0 days old)
>>> - virtualbox-ose-devel 4.1.51r39575 (10 days old)
>>> - virtualbox-ose-legacy 4.0.14 (2 months old)
>>> - phpvirtualbox 4.1-5 (1 month old)
>>>
>>> Keep in mind that you need to update devel/kBuild first to compile the
>>> newer virtualbox versions. Latest kBuild is also included in the
>>> repository.
>>>
>>> For support the IRC channel and mailinglist are still the same :o)
>>>
>>>
>>> Support:
>>> ========
>>>
>>> IRC: #fbsd-mentors on irc.unixfreunde.de
>>> irc://irc.unixfreunde.de/fbsd-mentors
>>>
>>> Mailinglist:
>>> freebsd-emulation (at) FreeBSD.org
>>>
>>> EMail:
>>> vbox (at) FreeBSD.org
>>>
>>>
>>> Development Repository:
>>> =======================
>>>
>>> Browseable:
>>> http://redports.org/browser/virtualbox
>>>
>>> SVN Checkout:
>>> svn co http://svn.redports.org/virtualbox/
>>>
>>> tar Archive of repository:
>>> http://redports.org/~virtualbox/svn.tar.bz2
>>>
>>> RSS Feed:
>>> http://redports.org/log/virtualbox?format=rss&limit=25
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bernhard Froehlich
>>> http://www.bluelife.at/
>>
>> First off, thank you for the tremendous quality and quantity of work
>> you (all) are doing with VirtualBox, and the new redports.org
>> infrastructure.  The work is truly exemplary and is an awesome example
>> of the type of dedication required for a healthy, successful open
>> source community effort.
>>
>> Secondly, I did run into one issue with VirtualBox 4.1.8 and VIMAGE,
>> which required the attached patch to function properly.  I'm not sure
>> of the implications of this apparent reversion in the vboxNetAdpInit()
>> function, but it seems to work for me.
>>
>> The patch in this form or any other is of course free to use in what
>> ever way one would please :)
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> The patch seems to have been eaten by the mail systems. Can you either
> put it in-line in a message or make sure that the attachment is
> text/plain? Probably text/*, but application and most (all?) other
> MIME types won't make it.
> --
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com

No problem:

--- src/VBox/HostDrivers/VBoxNetAdp/VBoxNetAdp.c.orig	2011-12-19
07:01:06.000000000 -0600
+++ src/VBox/HostDrivers/VBoxNetAdp/VBoxNetAdp.c	2011-12-26
14:54:27.000000000 -0600
@@ -1189,6 +1189,7 @@
 int  vboxNetAdpInit(void)
 {
     unsigned i;
+    PVBOXNETADP pVboxnet0;
     /*
      * Init common members and call OS-specific init.
      */
@@ -1201,7 +1202,8 @@
         vboxNetAdpOsInit(&g_aAdapters[i]);
     }

-    return VINF_SUCCESS;
+    /* Create vboxnet0 */
+    return vboxNetAdpCreate(&pVboxnet0, NULL);
 }

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