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Bug 715338 - app-emulation/virtualbox-6.1.4 installs broken symlink
Summary: app-emulation/virtualbox-6.1.4 installs broken symlink
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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Reported: 2020-03-29 17:51 UTC by Jack
Modified: 2020-06-14 15:13 UTC (History)
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Description Jack 2020-03-29 17:51:30 UTC
Post emerge message includes
QA: preinst
QA Notice: Symbolic link /usr/lib64/virtualbox/components/VBoxREM.so points to /usr/lib64/virtualbox/VBoxREM.so which does not exist.

Fortunately, I have not detected any problem caused by this, so I'm not actually sure if it really matters, or is just cosmetic.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge virtualbox-6.1.x
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
/usr/lib/virtualbox/components/VBoxREM.so is symlink to ../VBoxREM.so, which does not exist.

Expected Results:  
Either /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxREM.so exists or the symlink does not.

From https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Binaries_overview:  "Our recompiler based on QEMU? for certain fallback situations."
Comment 1 Jack 2020-05-20 21:37:04 UTC
Problem still present with 6.1.6
Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2020-06-14 15:13:58 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=50bc1e8ef07f3f0720dab0cfcd8888c00c95ae19

commit 50bc1e8ef07f3f0720dab0cfcd8888c00c95ae19
Author:     Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2020-06-14 15:13:44 +0000
Commit:     Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2020-06-14 15:13:53 +0000

    app-emulation/virtualbox: Revbump to not install dead symlink
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715338
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.100, Repoman-2.3.22
    Signed-off-by: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>

 .../{virtualbox-6.1.10.ebuild => virtualbox-6.1.10-r1.ebuild}          | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)