[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#484624: Bug#484624: virtualbox-ose depends on a

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Thursday 05 Jun 2008 1:08:57 pm Michael Meskes wrote:
> It does not. Stuff like this is easy to check before reporting a bug
> that is not there.
>

I tried my best.

> virtualbox-ose RECOMMENDS virtualbox-ose-modules which is a virtual
> packages provided by quite a lot of virtualbox-ose-modules-* packages
> among which the system simply choses one. You can/have to choose a right
> package manually.

How does the system choose one?
If I'm on a i686 machine, it should choose the same. But it doesn't

rrs at learner:~$ uname -m
i686

The workaround is to first manually install package 
virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-686, so that the virtualbox-ose-mdoules 
virtual package gets available and we don't run into some broken package type 
selection rule. Then installing package virtualbox-ose works.


rrs at learner:~$ apt-get install virtualbox-ose
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  linux-image-2.6.24-1-486 virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-486
Suggested packages:
  linux-doc-2.6.24 virtualbox-ose-source
Recommended packages:
  virtualbox-ose-modules
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-image-2.6.24-1-486 virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-486
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 19.4MB/25.7MB of archives.
After this operation, 78.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
rrs at learner:~$ apt-get install virtualbox-ose-modules
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package virtualbox-ose-modules is a virtual package provided by:
  virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.25-2-xen-686 2.6.25+1.5.6-dfsg-1
  virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.25-2-686-bigmem 2.6.25+1.5.6-dfsg-1
  virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.25-2-686 2.6.25+1.5.6-dfsg-1
  virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.25-2-486 2.6.25+1.5.6-dfsg-1
  virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-xen-686 2.6.24+1.5.6-dfsg-6
  virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem 2.6.24+1.5.6-dfsg-6
  virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-686 2.6.24+1.5.6-dfsg-6
  virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-486 2.6.24+1.5.6-dfsg-6
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package virtualbox-ose-modules has no installation candidate

rrs at learner:~$ apt-get install virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-686
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
  libxerces-c28 libxalan110
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-686
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/36.2kB of archives.
After this operation, 147kB of additional disk space will be used.
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-686.
(Reading database ... 159799 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-686 
(from .../virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-686_2.6.24+1.5.6-dfsg-6_i386.deb) ...
Setting up virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-686 (2.6.24+1.5.6-dfsg-6) ...


rrs at learner:~$ apt-get install virtualbox-ose
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  virtualbox-ose-source
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  virtualbox-ose
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/6373kB of archives.
After this operation, 20.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
serious bugs of virtualbox-ose ( -> 1.5.6-dfsg-7) <pending-fixed>
 #482504 - virtualbox-ose: FTBFS: kmk_builtin_install syntax error
Summary:
 virtualbox-ose(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...]  y
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox-ose.
(Reading database ... 159804 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking virtualbox-ose (from .../virtualbox-ose_1.5.6-dfsg-7_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Setting up virtualbox-ose (1.5.6-dfsg-7) ...
insserv: warning: script 'K04nvidia-kernel' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'K04nvidia-glx' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'nvidia-kernel' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'nvidia-glx' missing LSB tags and overrides
Starting VirtualBox host networking...done.
Processing triggers for menu ...


I hope you get convinced that it was/is a valid bug.

Ritesh
-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
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