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Bug 401029 - app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions creates /var/run/vboxguest
Summary: app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions creates /var/run/vboxguest
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED)
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Blocks: keepdir-var-run_lock
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Reported: 2012-01-27 13:56 UTC by Maxim Kammerer
Modified: 2012-12-22 12:28 UTC (History)
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Description Maxim Kammerer 2012-01-27 13:56:49 UTC 
The reason is apparently:

    enewuser vboxguest -1 /bin/sh /var/run/vboxguest vboxguest

This conflicts with the policy of only creating directories in /var/run on demand.

As far as I can tell, the service doesn't use that directory, but didn't check thoroughly. If it is not needed, /dev/null can be used in enewuser instead. If it is needed, I guess that the proper location is /var/lib.
Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-12-22 12:28:09 UTC 
+*virtualbox-guest-additions-4.2.6 (22 Dec 2012)
+*virtualbox-guest-additions-4.1.24 (22 Dec 2012)
+
+  22 Dec 2012; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
+  virtualbox-guest-additions-4.1.22.ebuild,
+  +virtualbox-guest-additions-4.1.24.ebuild,
+  -virtualbox-guest-additions-4.2.2.ebuild,
+  virtualbox-guest-additions-4.2.4.ebuild,
+  +virtualbox-guest-additions-4.2.6.ebuild:
+  Version bump. Removed old. Don't create /var/run/vboxguest (bug #401029).
+