On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:03, TJ <andrewsfarm@gmail.com> wrote:

New VirtualBox releases are coming thick and fast. On July 15, Oracle released version 4.0.12. Yesterday, four days later, version 4.1.0 was released.

At this rate, it's going to be next to impossible for the repositories to keep up, and to remain viable for all users they may not even want to try.

If a user wants to try it on his own, what would be the best procedure? I had originally thought that for now the Oracle-supplied Mandriva rpms would probably work, but I've read that they won't because they use a version of Python different from that of Mageia.

They do work with a small workaround (http://dodonov.net/blog/2011/07/19/upstream-virtualbox-openssl-versions-on-mandriva/).

We were actually discussing it with misc on cooker yesterday, and from what I understood they won't be supported out-of-the-box by Mageia unless Oracle starts to recompile their packages with openssl 1.0.0.