On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, Yasha Karant wrote:

> On 12/28/2015 01:37 PM, S A wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was out for holiday last week and came back to my SL 7.1 desktop needing a slew of updates.  I had been running VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.10_104061_el7-1.x86_64 against kernel-3.10.0-229.14.1.el7.x86_64 with out issue.  After installing the latest kernel mentioned by Etienne, and attempting to rebuild the vboxdrv modules, I had similar failures.  Afterward, I attempted to upgrade to VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.12_104815_el7-1.x86_64, I discovered the libdevmapper issue noted in the previous post which prevented the newer version from installing.
>>
>> It seems that there is a VirtualBox bug filed against the EL7.2 3.10.0-327 kernel noted here: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14866 which may be causing the issues you are encountering.  Unfortunately, the testing build for EL7: https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.11_104721_el7-1.x86_64.rpm, does not install due to the same libdevmapper issue.  I had hoped maybe the devmapper issue was introduced in builds between the latest testbuild and the release build for 5.0.12, no such luck.
>>
>> I have device-mapper-libs-1.02.93-3.el7_1.1.x86_64 installed, but it seems that the VirtualBox package is calling for device-mapper-libs-1.02.97, which doesn't seem to be available for SL7.  The CentOS and Oracle Linux public yum repo's latest version is device-mapper-libs-1.02.107-5.el7.x86_64.  Is that in the pipeline for release to SL7 soon?
>>
>> Thanks!
> I am confused.  As I thought I understood the current EL situation, Red
> Hat owns CentOS and distributes EL full source, per GPL, Linux, etc.,
> licenses, through CentOS for all non-RH rebuilds (e.g., Oracle) to use
> (sans Red Hat logos, services, etc.).  In this case, two questions:
>
> (1) Is Fermilab/CERN not funded well enough to have the same
> rebuliding/packaging resources as Oracle just to rebuild from the RH
> CentOS sources, and thus is delayed in production binary (RPM) release
> compared to Oracle?  Both Fermilab and CERN are funded through their
> respective governments that support fundamental research.

CERN is NOT involved in SL 7 .

>
> (2) If (1) is true, during the interval before the "current" RH
> production release is a SL release, can one simply use the CentOS or
> Oracle RPMs (e.g., in this case,
> device-mapper-libs-1.02.107-5.el7.x86_64.rpm) to maintain compatibility
> with Oracle licensed-for-free products (e.g., VirtualBox)?
>
> Yasha Karant
>

device-mapper-libs-1.02.107-5.el7.x86_64.rpm is available via the 
"rolling" repo now.

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