Hello Robert, VBox.sh is not part of Linux installations, but you will find it in the sources. You are right that we do not put files in /usr/lib/VirtualBox in any of our current packages, but that is just an example for illustration, so it is not a problem.
Thanks. Regards Michael 16.01.19 11:42, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2019, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> first time going through VBox [6.0.2] in real detail so currently >> proofreading and making notes. after installing on my fedora 29 >> system, i noticed that there were a small number of references to >> "VBox.sh" in some of the installed scripts under /usr/lib/virtualbox: >> >> $ grep -rw VBox.sh * >> postinst-common.sh:# The below is GNU-specific. See VBox.sh for the longer >> Solaris/OS X version. >> prerm-common.sh:# The below is GNU-specific. See VBox.sh for the longer >> Solaris/OS X version. >> vboxdrv.sh:# The below is GNU-specific. See VBox.sh for the longer >> Solaris/OS X version. >> $ >> >> however, i saw no such script VBox.sh installed anywhere on my >> system, so i svn checked out the source and found the spec file, where >> that script is renamed to simply "VBox": >> >> VirtualBox.spec:mv VBox.sh $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/VBox >> >> everything works fine, of course, but the comment references in those >> earlier three scripts to "VBox.sh" have the potential to throw the >> reader who goes looking for VBox.sh and, obviously, won't find it. >> >> thoughts? > > sorry, should have mentioned one more inconsistency in the scripts; > a couple references to "/usr/lib/VirtualBox": > > $ grep -r "/usr/lib/VirtualBox" * > .../postinst-common.sh:# (e.g. /opt/VirtualBox, /usr/lib/VirtualBox, the > build output directory). > .../prerm-common.sh:# (e.g. /opt/VirtualBox, /usr/lib/VirtualBox, the build > output directory). > > while the first dir name (/opt/VirtualBox) appears to be correct, > the second should be /usr/lib/virtualbox, not /usr/lib/VirtualBox. > > for expediency, should i just submit patches to this list, just the > way i do for things like the linux kernel? i read the "contributing" > guidelines, and it seems like that would work. > > rday > -- Michael Thayer | VirtualBox engineer ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | D-71384 Weinstadt ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Nederland, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Jan Schultheiss, Val Maher
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