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Bug 436206 - app-emulation/virtualbox-4.2.0-r1 installs udev rules into /lib/udev/rules.d and executables into /lib/udev
Summary: app-emulation/virtualbox-4.2.0-r1 installs udev rules into /lib/udev/rules.d ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED)
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: 439824 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: udevdir
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Reported: 2012-09-25 12:07 UTC by Paolo Pedroni
Modified: 2012-11-10 21:12 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Patch to fix udev rules and executables location (virtualbox-4.2.0-r2.ebuild.patch,885 bytes, patch)
2012-09-25 12:07 UTC, Paolo Pedroni 		Details | Diff
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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).
+