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Building this package will always bring the latest 5.2 stable version listed at

<http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox>

Okay, I built 5.40 yesterday along with virtualbox and all was good. The only reason I flagged OOD for the testcase -- is at that time the only Oracle package that supported Linux 5.6 was the testcase -- and sometimes it can take a couple of months to get from testcase to next release. All good now. If you ever want to orphan this one, I'd be happy to pick it up. Keep up the good work!

@drankinatty please stop flagging this package as OOD and point to testing builds!

As I said it already, this is for the stable version.

If you need to experiment, use virtualbox-ext-oracle-5-test-build, but see the pinned comment there

For use with 5.6 kernel

# Maintainer: pappy <pappy _AT_ a s c e l i o n _DOT_ com>
pkgname=virtualbox-ext-oracle-5
pkgver=5.2.39
pkgrel=1
_build=136804
# ...
source=("http://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-$pkgver-${_build}.vbox-extpack")
noextract=("Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-$pkgver-${_build}.vbox-extpack")
sha256sums=('072c6aec878229fb7e18fb5292caf95b2dca107cb0cc9c2343b69798382fdae2')

Building this package will always bring the latest 5.2 stable version listed at

<http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox>

@drankinatty, those are test builds which I don't want to support because of their impact on the stability.

If you want to experiment with those builds you can use the package virtualbox-ext-oracle-5-test-build, but don't expect it to be up to date, the build number already changed to 135314.

Here is the current PKGBUILD for Oracle Testcase build for Linux 5.4

# Maintainer: pappy <pappy _AT_ a s c e l i o n _DOT_ com>
pkgname=virtualbox-ext-oracle-5
pkgver=5.2.35
pkgrel=2
_build=135095
pkgdesc='Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack 5.x'
arch=(any)
url=https://www.virtualbox.org/
license=(custom:PUEL)
options=('!strip')
conflicts=(virtualbox-ext-oracle virtualbox-ext-oracle-5.0)
install=virtualbox-ext-oracle.install
source=("http://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-$pkgver-${_build}.vbox-extpack")
# source=("http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/$pkgver/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-$pkgver.vbox-extpack")
noextract=("Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-$pkgver-${_build}.vbox-extpack")
# noextract=("Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-$pkgver.vbox-extpack")
sha256sums=('3a979747fe7b8371a8bc4675c7956d01c2f393d120bc9c140a98378378f2a591')

prepare() {
        # shrink uneeded cpuarch
        [[ -d shrunk ]] || mkdir shrunk
        tar xfC "Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-$pkgver-${_build}.vbox-extpack" shrunk
        # tar xfC "Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-$pkgver.vbox-extpack" shrunk
        rm -r shrunk/{darwin*,solaris*,win*}
        tar -c --gzip --file shrunk.vbox-extpack -C shrunk .
}

package() {
        depends=('virtualbox')
        optdepends=('rdesktop: client to connect vm via RDP')
        install -Dm 644 shrunk.vbox-extpack \
                "$pkgdir/usr/share/virtualbox/extensions/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-$pkgver.vbox-extpack"
                # "$pkgdir/usr/share/virtualbox/extensions/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-$pkgver.vbox-extpack"
        install -Dm 644 shrunk/ExtPack-license.txt \
                "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/PUEL"
}

It will build fine after you build and install the virtualbox-bin-5 current building for the Oracle Testcase as well

Current testcase will support the Linux 5.4 kernel:

https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.2.35-135095.vbox-extpack

Along with the testcase for for:

https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VirtualBox-5.2.35-135095-Linux_amd64.run

Now with computed $pkgver...

Ah, I'll have to see what there is new :) 5.2.30 is out now, I updated virtualbox-bin-5, and rebuilt this with mods to this PKGBUILD. 5.2.30 supports the new Linux 5.1 kernel.

@drankinatty, that's not enough, there is more :)