Bug 2390546

Summary:	virtualbox-guest-additions requires YASM to build
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik>
Component:	virtualbox-guest-additions	Assignee:	Alex Tereschenko <frozen.and.blue>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	frozen.and.blue, hans, hdegoede, james, michael.thayer, nixuser
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Description Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2025-08-23 20:23:19 UTC

Description of problem:
virtualbox-guest-additions lists YASM as a build dependency. YASM is deprecated due to being unmaintained upstream. Please switch to NASM. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateYASM for more details.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virtualbox-guest-additions-7.1.8-2.fc43

Comment 1 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2025-10-04 02:39:48 UTC

This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.

Comment 2 Alex Tereschenko 2026-01-25 21:06:26 UTC

JFYI, I'm working on this one, so feel free to assign it to me. The upstream is not currently ready for NASM-only build, but I seem to have fixed the necessary pieces, at least it does build now [1, 2]. I haven't yet run any tests on actual VBox instances, will do this as the next step. If that works, I'll start a discussion with upstream on whether the approach I took makes sense and whether they'd accept a PR (we naturally don't want to carry a patch unless strictly necessary).

[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/fork/alext/rpms/virtualbox-guest-additions/tree/alext-move-to-nasm
[2] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/alext/vbox-guest-additions-tests/build/10056621/

Comment 3 Alex Tereschenko 2026-02-01 17:53:14 UTC

All the usual basic tests passed fine, so looks like the fix does work. To be on the safe side and to clarify the upstreaming status, I've submitted a question to the VirtualBox team: https://github.com/VirtualBox/virtualbox/issues/520, waiting for their reply.

Comment 4 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2026-02-03 20:54:24 UTC

Looks great, thanks for working on this!