VirtualBox Guest Additions Ignore?

[drhowarddrfine]

Freshports shows emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions as "Ignore" because it requires kernel src. I found this out when trying to install it on a Win7 box where FreeBSD10 is a guest. My sole purpose is so I can resize the VirtualBox window to full screen.

So is this a temporary thing or am I missing something and can someone shed some light?

 

[tobik@]

It builds a kernel module so it needs the kernel source. Alternatively install the binary package via pkg.

Every port that builds a kernel module has an IGNORE on Freshports courtesy of USES=kmod in their Makefiles (in /usr/ports/Mk/Uses/kmod.mk IGNORE is set if /usr/src/sys/Makefile does not exist). See e.g. multimedia/cuse4bsd-kmod or sysutils/fusefs-kmod. I guess Freshports doesn't have the source code installed.

 

[drhowarddrfine]

I read about using pkg to install it, and tried that, but it not only updated my perl5 version and then complained that it conflicted with that perl5 version (installed in the same place).

I install everything from ports so I'm concerned about doing this with packages. Would I be safe uninstalling the conflicting perl5 port and let pkg do its thing?

I did this at work so I'm going by memory a bit.

 

[tobik@]

I install everything from ports so I'm concerned about doing this with packages. Would I be safe uninstalling the conflicting perl5 port and let pkg do its thing?

Considering you are using VirtualBox I would just snapshot the VM and try it out. If anything goes wrong rollback.