Installing VirtualBox from the live ebuild (9999) it tries to make a chown using group vboxusers at the end of compile time, during install time, but the group is created only at merge time. Here's the output: >>> Source compiled. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: app-emulation/virtualbox-9999 >>> Install virtualbox-9999 into /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-9999/image/ category app-emulation * Installing vboxdrv module chown: `root:vboxusers': gruppo non valido chown: `root:vboxusers': gruppo non valido chown: `root:vboxusers': gruppo non valido chown: `root:vboxusers': gruppo non valido chown: `root:vboxusers': gruppo non valido chown: `root:vboxusers': gruppo non valido >>> Completed installing virtualbox-9999 into /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-9999/image/ strip: i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded opt/VirtualBox/VirtualBox opt/VirtualBox/VBoxXPCOM.so opt/VirtualBox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD opt/VirtualBox/VBoxXPCOMIPCC.so opt/VirtualBox/VBoxXML.so opt/VirtualBox/VBoxVMM.so opt/VirtualBox/VBoxSVCM.so opt/VirtualBox/VBoxSVC opt/VirtualBox/VBoxSharedOpenGL.so opt/VirtualBox/VBoxSharedFolders.so opt/VirtualBox/VBoxSharedClipboard.so opt/VirtualBox/VBoxSDL opt/VirtualBox/VBoxRT.so opt/VirtualBox/VBoxREM.so opt/VirtualBox/VBoxREMImp.so opt/VirtualBox/VBoxManage opt/VirtualBox/VBoxDDU.so opt/VirtualBox/VBoxDD.so opt/VirtualBox/VBoxDD2.so opt/VirtualBox/VBoxC.so opt/VirtualBox/components/VBoxC.so opt/VirtualBox/components/VBoxSVCM.so opt/VirtualBox/components/VBoxXPCOMIPCC.so * QA Notice: The following files contain runtime text relocations * Text relocations force the dynamic linker to perform extra * work at startup, waste system resources, and may pose a security * risk. On some architectures, the code may not even function * properly, if at all. * For more information, see http://hardened.gentoo.org/pic-fix-guide.xml * Please include this file in your report: * /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-9999/temp/scanelf-textrel.log * TEXTREL opt/VirtualBox/VBoxC.so TEXTREL opt/VirtualBox/VBoxDD2.so TEXTREL opt/VirtualBox/VBoxDD.so TEXTREL opt/VirtualBox/VBoxDDU.so TEXTREL opt/VirtualBox/VBoxREM.so TEXTREL opt/VirtualBox/VBoxRT.so TEXTREL opt/VirtualBox/VBoxSharedClipboard.so TEXTREL opt/VirtualBox/VBoxSharedFolders.so TEXTREL opt/VirtualBox/VBoxSharedOpenGL.so TEXTREL opt/VirtualBox/VBoxSVCM.so TEXTREL opt/VirtualBox/VBoxVMM.so TEXTREL opt/VirtualBox/VBoxXML.so TEXTREL opt/VirtualBox/components/VBoxSVCM.so TEXTREL opt/VirtualBox/components/VBoxC.so * QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile * fine but exhibit random runtime failures. * /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-9999/work/virtualbox-9999/src/recompiler/exec.c:314: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules >>> Merging app-emulation/virtualbox-9999 to / * Adding group 'vboxusers' to your system ... * - Groupid: next available --- /etc/ --- /etc/udev/ --- /etc/udev/rules.d/ >>> /etc/udev/rules.d/60-virtualbox.rules --- /usr/ --- /usr/share/ --- /usr/share/applications/ >>> /usr/share/applications/virtualbox.desktop --- /usr/share/pixmaps/ [...] Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install virtualbox-9999 2. 3. Actual Results: files are installed in the system with root:root permissions so nobody can run virtualbox Expected Results: files installed in the system with root:vboxusers owner this diff fix the things 78,80d77 < < enewgroup vboxusers < 134a132,135 > pkg_preinst() { > enewgroup vboxusers > } >
(In reply to comment #0) Please, use unified diffs. This is unreadable.
(In reply to comment #1) > Please, use unified diffs. This is unreadable. And it's even wrong :D the problem is that all the "fowners root:vboxusers [...]" present in src_install should be moved in pkg_preinst() since from that moment there's a group called vboxusers, not before. Or the "enewgroup 'vboxusers'" should have to be moved in pkg_setup .
(In reply to comment #2) > Or the "enewgroup 'vboxusers'" should have to be moved in pkg_setup . But that's against the ebuild writing guide: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/index.html
enewgroup should be in pkg_setup
Hi, fixed the group creation issue in jokey's overlay[1] Thanks for your report [1] http://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/jokey/browser/trunk/app-emulation/virtualbox
Fix applied to cvs, thanks to all involved
