[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#530321: Bug#530321: virtualbox-ose: Drop /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg: not required and conflicts with upstream's -ose package

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Mon May 25 00:00:06 UTC 2009


On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 03:48:43AM +0200, Daniel Hahler wrote:
> In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following:

Hmm, the patch does not appear to be complete, or is there a reason for still
installing vbox.cfg and including it in /etc/init.d/virtualbox?

>   * Remove usage/references to /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg (as handled
>     upstream) (LP: #280973).
>     This prevents "Could not find VirtualBox installation.
>     Please reinstall." error, after having installed the
>     upstream debian package.

Sorry, I don't really understand what you accomplish with this patch. Yes, I
see the change and I recon it does not harm, but where's the advantage. I
simple do not understand what you try to say.

>     - debian/virtualbox-ose.files/VBox.sh: do not source
>       vbox.cfg anymore.
>     - Delete debian/virtualbox-ose.files/vbox.cfg

Hmm, so you did remove it, but apparently it was missing from the patch. :-)

Michael
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