Bug 285228

Summary:	app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-3.0.6 was silently replaced by upstream with a newer build
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nick Andrade <SDNick484>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) <jokey>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	patrick, swapon
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/616#comment:73
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nick Andrade 2009-09-16 17:58:48 UTC

When VirtualBox.org first posted Sun VirtualBox 3.0.6, it used build 52128.  However a long standing bug was resolved (see URL), and they quietly replaced 3.0.6 build 52128 with 3.0.6 build 52130.  The major version stayed the same, so for people with app-emulation/virtualbox-bin already installed, we didn't get notified of the update (and so we have the bugged version).  I suggest creating a -r1 of virtualbox-bin-3.0.6 which will download the new version.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge virtualbox-bin

Actual Results:  
Downloads the old version of 3.0.6 (build 52128).

Expected Results:  
Download the new version of 3.0.6 (build 52130).

Comment 1 Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum) 2009-09-16 21:41:29 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> When VirtualBox.org first posted Sun VirtualBox 3.0.6, it used build 52128. 
> However a long standing bug was resolved (see URL), and they quietly replaced
> 3.0.6 build 52128 with 3.0.6 build 52130.
Yes, same bad habit by VirtualBox upstream and _still without_ notification...

> we didn't get notified of the update (and so we have the bugged version).
sure as usual ;)

Well i'm unable to find any news about this silent update, for this reason
i wrote an email to upstream[1], i want to know why this updated affected
only amd64 (and what kind of update).

For the moment thanks for your feedback

[1] http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-dev/2009-September/001821.html

Comment 2 Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum) 2009-09-17 19:11:32 UTC

Today upstream replied to my previous answer[1], as Frank said
the silent bump was due a critical bug[2] that afflicts amd64 platforms,
and the official announcement will appear later..

app-emulation/virtualbox-bin was updated to 3.0.6-r1 on jokey's overlay[3]


[1] http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-dev/2009-September/001822.html
[2] http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/616
[3] http://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/jokey

Comment 3 Patrick Lauer gentoo-dev

2009-09-17 19:29:31 UTC

+  17 Sep 2009; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>
+  +virtualbox-bin-3.0.6-r1.ebuild:
+  Bump for #285228, fixes silent upstream tarball change madness. Thanks to
+  X-Drum for fixing and testing.