Bug 290507 - remove emulators/virtualbox-ose VirtualBox-6.1.50 from ports tree
Summary: remove emulators/virtualbox-ose VirtualBox-6.1.50 from ports tree
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
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Assignee: Vladimir Druzenko
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Reported: 2025-10-25 13:08 UTC by groenveld
Modified: 2025-11-13 00:18 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
vvd: maintainer-feedback+

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rm -rf emulators/virtualbox-ose*62 (380.94 KB, patch)
2025-10-25 13:13 UTC, groenveld 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description groenveld 2025-10-25 13:08:12 UTC 
VirtualBox-6.1 is EOLd upstream.
Contains no features not available in supported emulators/virtualbox-ose-*-7? or in VirtualBox-5.2 branch in emulators/virtualbox-ose-legacy maintained to support 32-bit.
John
groenveld@acm.org
Comment 1 groenveld 2025-10-25 13:13:14 UTC 
Created attachment 264875 [details]
rm -rf emulators/virtualbox-ose*62

updated emulators/Makefile and rm -rf'd the virtualbox-ose ports corresponding to VBox 6.2
John
groenveld@acm.org
Comment 2 Vladimir Druzenko freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2025-10-25 13:38:25 UTC 
I'm thinking of setting the EXPIRATION_DATE=2026-12-31.
Comment 3 groenveld 2025-10-25 13:59:14 UTC 
(In reply to Vladimir Druzenko from comment #2)
AFAICT there's no feature loss between 6.2 and 7.0 or 7.1:
<URL:https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0>

I do see Python2 bindings were to be removed in 7.2:
<URL:https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.1>

John
groenveld@acm.org
Comment 4 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2025-11-09 16:14:06 UTC 
A commit in branch main references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=fba59be43255daf690c344e7ca663d7b63515003

commit fba59be43255daf690c344e7ca663d7b63515003
Author:     Vladimir Druzenko <vvd@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-11-09 16:09:54 +0000
Commit:     Vladimir Druzenko <vvd@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-11-09 16:09:54 +0000

    emulators/virtualbox-ose{,-additions,-kmod}{,-nox11}: Deprecate and set to expire on 2026-12-31

    Upstream EOL reaches on 2024-01-31, use emulators/virtualbox-ose-*-72
    instead.

    PR:     290507

 emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions/Makefile | 3 +++
 emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod/Makefile      | 3 +++
 emulators/virtualbox-ose/Makefile           | 3 +++
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
Comment 5 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2025-11-11 23:09:10 UTC 
A commit in branch main references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=eadf59fd9dc8041aef713aa689fd5fe92314a2fc

commit eadf59fd9dc8041aef713aa689fd5fe92314a2fc
Author:     Vladimir Druzenko <vvd@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-11-11 23:07:21 +0000
Commit:     Vladimir Druzenko <vvd@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-11-11 23:08:23 +0000

    www/phpvirtualbox: Deprecate and set to expire on 2026-12-31

    Upstream EOL reaches on 2024-01-31, use www/phpvirtualbox-72 instead.

    PR:     290507

 www/phpvirtualbox/Makefile | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
Comment 6 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2025-11-13 00:18:14 UTC 
^Triage: port has been given an EXPIRATION_DATE.