Bug#1050820: virtualbox-ext-pack: downloaded extension pack not stored?

[Tobias Frost]

Control: severity -1 normal

Ok, looking at postinst [0], it seems that the message 

"The file will be downloaded into /usr/share/virtualbox-ext-pack" 

misled me, as it seems, as line 31 rm it after installing it…

May I suggeset to remove that line, and while on it fixing #908897 to
use a more FSH compliant path (/usr might not be writeable…)

[0] 
https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-virtualbox-team/virtualbox-ext-pack/-/blob/master/debian/postinst.in#L27

-- 
Cheers,
tobi

Bug#1050820: virtualbox-ext-pack: downloaded extension pack not stored?

[Tobias Frost]

Package: virtualbox-ext-pack
Version: 7.0.10-1
Severity: grave

Dear Maintainer,

/usr/share/virtualbox-ext-pack/ is empty after package installation and
download:

root@isildor2:/usr# apt install virtualbox-ext-pack
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  virtualbox-ext-pack
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/11.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 152 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-ext-pack.
(Reading database ... 233745 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox-ext-pack_7.0.10-1_all.deb ...
License has already been accepted.
Unpacking virtualbox-ext-pack (7.0.10-1) ...
Setting up virtualbox-ext-pack (7.0.10-1) ...
virtualbox-ext-pack: downloading: 
https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.10/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-7.0.10.vbox-extpack
The file will be downloaded into /usr/share/virtualbox-ext-pack
License accepted.
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Successfully installed "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack".
root@isildor2:/usr# ls -la /usr/share/virtualbox-ext-pack/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Aug 29 19:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 313 root root 12288 Aug 29 19:13 ..

root@isildor2:~# find / -name '*vbox-extpack'
root@isildor2:~#





-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 
'stable-security'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 
'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages virtualbox-ext-pack depends on:
ii  ca-certificates20230311
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.82
ii  virtualbox 7.0.10-dfsg-3
ii  wget   1.21.3-1+b2

virtualbox-ext-pack recommends no packages.

virtualbox-ext-pack suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* virtualbox-ext-pack/license: true