[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#530323: Bug#530323: virtualbox-ose-source has to conflict with upstream's debian packages

[Michael Meskes]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 03:52:42AM +0200, Daniel Hahler wrote:
> I've installed virtualbox-2.2, which removed virtualbox-ose and apparently it created (or only touched) a dangling/wrong symlink:
>   /usr/src/vboxdrv-2.2.2 -> ../share/virtualbox/src/vboxdrv

neither of these files exist in the Debian package.

> There might be something in the removal process of one of the 2.2.2-dfsg-2ubuntu1 packages or in the installation of virtualbox-2.2 (from virtualbox.org), which created (or only touched) this (and caused later problems when installing virtualbox-ose/virtualbox-ose-source again, which uses that directory for installation (and caused DKMS to fail)).

Debian does neither use this directory nor DKMS.

> I could reproduce this as follows:
> 1. Remove virtualbox-ose-source
> 2. Install virtualbox-2.2, this will install a symlink: /usr/src/vboxdrv-2.2.2 -> ../share/virtualbox/src/vboxdrv
> 3. "dpkg -i" virtualbox-ose-source, virtualbox-ose, virtualbox-ose-qt
> 4. This will install virtualbox-ose-source, _then_ remove virtualbox-2.2 (which leads to the problem)

Sounds like a problem with the upstream package, huh? 

> We thought you might be interested in doing the same. 

Please explain why. BTW your patch does not apply to the Debian source tree.

Michael
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