VirtualBox

Opened 15 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#4095 closed defect (obsolete)

Debian package: please add "Provides: virtualbox-source" to debian/control

Reported by: blueyed Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 2.2.2
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: other

Description (last modified by aeichner)

There's a problem if you do the following:

  1. Install virtualbox-2.2, this will install a symlink: /usr/src/vboxdrv-2.2.2 -> ../share/virtualbox/src/vboxdrv
  2. Install virtualbox-ose-source
  3. Remove virtualbox-2.2, e.g. by installing virtualbox-ose

This leads to the following: In 2. virtualbox-ose-source appears to install its files into the symlink's target. In 3. /usr/src/share/virtualbox/src/vboxdrv gets removed and a dangling symlink is left behind

I've tried to workaround this using "Conflicts", but (for some reason to clarify) we provide those names (virtualbox, virtualbox-2.0, virtualbox-2.1, virtualbox-2.2) ourselves.

The solution to this problems appears to be if you would add "Provides: virtualbox-source" to your packages (after all, they provide/ship it), since the packages in Debian/Ubuntu already conflict/replace/provide "virtualbox-source".

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ose/+bug/379878 for the bug in Launchpad.

Keep in mind that this might be wrong of course, so maybe wait if there's any negative feedback from the Debian maintainers.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by aeichner, 8 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Resolution: obsolete
Status: newclosed

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