On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 03:52:42AM +0200, Daniel Hahler wrote: > I've installed virtualbox-2.2, which removed virtualbox-ose and apparently it > created (or only touched) a dangling/wrong symlink: > /usr/src/vboxdrv-2.2.2 -> ../share/virtualbox/src/vboxdrv
neither of these files exist in the Debian package. > There might be something in the removal process of one of the > 2.2.2-dfsg-2ubuntu1 packages or in the installation of virtualbox-2.2 (from > virtualbox.org), which created (or only touched) this (and caused later > problems when installing virtualbox-ose/virtualbox-ose-source again, which > uses that directory for installation (and caused DKMS to fail)). Debian does neither use this directory nor DKMS. > I could reproduce this as follows: > 1. Remove virtualbox-ose-source > 2. Install virtualbox-2.2, this will install a symlink: > /usr/src/vboxdrv-2.2.2 -> ../share/virtualbox/src/vboxdrv > 3. "dpkg -i" virtualbox-ose-source, virtualbox-ose, virtualbox-ose-qt > 4. This will install virtualbox-ose-source, _then_ remove virtualbox-2.2 > (which leads to the problem) Sounds like a problem with the upstream package, huh? > We thought you might be interested in doing the same. Please explain why. BTW your patch does not apply to the Debian source tree. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Michael at BorussiaFan dot De, Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: mes...@jabber.org Go VfL Borussia! Go SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
