The emerge log for sys-fs/udev-189 wrote: "This version of udev moves the files that were installed in /lib/udev to /usr/lib/udev. We include a backward compatibility patch for gentoo to allow the rules in /lib/udev/rules.d to be read. However, bugs should be filed against packages that are installing files in /lib/udev so they can be fixed." app-emulation/vmware-modules-264.4 installs files into that old location, so it should be fixed. Remerging the package is not enough to fix this issue.
Created attachment 324934 [details, diff] Patch to fix udev rules location The attached patch does the trick.
Comment on attachment 324934 [details, diff] Patch to fix udev rules location >--- /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules/vmware-modules-264.4.ebuild 2012-06-17 15:09:10.000000000 +0200 >+++ /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules/vmware-modules-264.4-r1.ebuild 2012-09-25 12:26:18.737602513 +0200 >@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ > > EAPI="4" > >-inherit eutils flag-o-matic linux-info linux-mod user versionator >+inherit eutils flag-o-matic linux-info linux-mod user versionator toolchain-funcs > > PV_MAJOR=$(get_major_version) > PV_MINOR=$(get_version_component_range 2) >@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ > KERNEL=="vmmon", GROUP="vmware", MODE=660 > KERNEL=="vsock", GROUP="vmware", MODE=660 > EOF >- insinto /lib/udev/rules.d/ >+ >+ local udevdir="$($(tc-getPKG_CONFIG) --variable=udevdir udev)" >+ has_version sys-fs/udev && udevdir="$($(tc-getPKG_CONFIG) --variable=udevdir udev)" >+ insinto "${udevdir}/rules.d" > doins "${udevrules}" > }
+ 12 Dec 2012; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> + vmware-modules-238.6.ebuild, vmware-modules-264.4.ebuild, + vmware-modules-271.1.ebuild: + Use udev.eclass and udev_dorules to install rules into correct directory wrt + #433912 by Martin von Gagern Thanks for the patch, but we deprecated that method and started using udev.eclass to minimize duplication of code around ebuilds
