Bug 2390546 - virtualbox-guest-additions requires YASM to build
Summary: virtualbox-guest-additions requires YASM to build
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Status: MODIFIED
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: virtualbox-guest-additions
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Alex Tereschenko
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 2388199
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-08-23 20:23 UTC by Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Modified: 2026-02-03 20:54 UTC (History)
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Github VirtualBox virtualbox issues 520 0 None open [Req]: Building Guest Additions with NASM only (patch proposal) 2026-02-03 20:54:46 UTC

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!


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