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There is no version dependency on this package on purpose! You could read comments back from 2011 to understand why.

@Cody_Learner, I think there's even easier thing to do with yay?

From the docs it seems we could have used:

--redownload
    Always download pkgbuilds of targets even when a copy is available in cache.

No idea if that would actually help in this case but seems likely. No way to test it now as I've already just reinstalled the package.

EDIT: I had other machine to try it - didn't work. But the suggestion above from @nursoda did work.

An easy workaround for a bad problem?

I use my own AUR helper https://github.com/Cody-Learner/aurch, that error/failed to build this with the following:

error: target not found: virtualbox=7.0.6
==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies.
==> Missing dependencies:
  -> virtualbox=7.0.6
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.'

In my case deleting the previous virtualbox-ext-oracle build directory, to start fresh was all that was needed.
It was trying to build using the old, existing PKGBUILD rather than overwriting it with the new one. Check the PKGBUILD before the building to verify version is pkgver=7.0.8 rather than pkgver=7.0.6.

And the end of the successful build output:

:: aurch ==> Checking/Cleaning chroot.
 Package count: 146
:: aurch ==> Copied AUR package/s to host AURREPO:
     1  virtualbox-ext-oracle-7.0.8-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
:: aurch ==> Adding package/s to host 'AURREPO' database.
==> Extracting aur-repo.db.tar.gz to a temporary location...
==> Extracting aur-repo.files.tar.gz to a temporary location...
==> Adding package '/home/jeff/z-aurch-AUR/repo/virtualbox-ext-oracle-7.0.8-1-any.pkg.tar.zst'
  -> Computing checksums...
  -> Removing existing entry 'virtualbox-ext-oracle-7.0.6-1'...
  -> Creating 'desc' db entry...
  -> Creating 'files' db entry...
==> Creating updated database file '/home/jeff/z-aurch-AUR/repo/aur-repo.db.tar.gz'`

This may be worth checking for others that are having problems.

MartinX3 not necessary al all, but could help someone in troubles...

Bad workaround for an easy to fix problem in the PKGBUILD by the author of the package.

It should just work by updating the packages with an AUR helper like paru

In any case you can install the package without dependencies running makepkg -nodeps, remove the latest version of this package that you have installed running pacman -Rns and then overwriting with makepkg -f

Please remove the version dependency.
I need to manually remove this package on each package update.

With the latest update virtualbox7.0.8-1 and virtualbox-ext-oracle 7.0.8-1 all works fine.

could we please remove the version dependency like the pinned comment suggests? Right now it breaks on updates to virtualbox. I had to remove this extension and install it after updating virtualbox itself.

:: installing virtualbox (7.0.8-1) breaks dependency 'virtualbox=7.0.6' required by virtualbox-ext-oracle

Could we drop pkgver here: depends=("virtualbox=${pkgver}")

Hi, slightly different error here with 7.0.6-3 ; removing and reinstalling both virtualbox and virtualbox-ext-oracle doesn't help :

(1/1) installing virtualbox-ext-oracle
VBoxManage: error: Manifest mismatch: 'linux.amd64/VBoxEhciR0.r0' not found in the 2nd manifest
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component ExtPackFileWrap, interface IExtPackFile, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "Install(fReplace, __null, ptrProgress.asOutParam())" at line 1910 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp
error: command failed to execute correctly

any ideas ?

Thank you, it works :)