Bug 436206

Summary:	app-emulation/virtualbox-4.2.0-r1 installs udev rules into /lib/udev/rules.d and executables into /lib/udev
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Paolo Pedroni <paolo.pedroni>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) <polynomial-c>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	arne.flagge, egorov_egor, patrick, swapon, waebbl
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	433916
Attachments:	Patch to fix udev rules and executables location

Description Paolo Pedroni 2012-09-25 12:07:02 UTC

Created attachment 324936 [details, diff]
Patch to fix udev rules and executables location

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/virtualbox-4.2.0-r1 installs files into that old location, so it should be fixed. Remerging the package is not enough to fix this issue.

A patch is included that fixes this behaviour.

Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-11-08 13:35:38 UTC

*** Bug 439824 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-11-09 09:10:32 UTC

use udev.eclass, marking to block bug 433916

Comment 3 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-11-10 21:12:06 UTC

+*virtualbox-4.2.4 (10 Nov 2012)
+
+  10 Nov 2012; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
+  -virtualbox-4.2.0-r1.ebuild, virtualbox-4.2.2.ebuild,
+  +virtualbox-4.2.4.ebuild:
+  Version bump. Removed old. Fixed location of udev dir (bug #436206).
+