Package: vice
Version: 3.0.0.dfsg-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
When a local administrator wishes to install the VICE ROMs for all
users on the local machine, the usual and recommended practice would
be to put them under /usr/local/.
VICE does not look there by default, however, which forces local
admins to put the files in /usr/lib/, a directory normally reserved
for the OS. Only Debian's version of VICE should be writing files
there, not local admins.
The solution is to modify VICE to add /usr/local to the search path. I
have included a patch below.
--- src/arch/unix/archdep.c.orig 2016-10-20 10:07:43.000000000 -0700
+++ src/arch/unix/archdep.c 2019-03-31 10:51:21.530798424 -0700
@@ -169,8 +169,8 @@
boot_path = archdep_boot_path();
home_path = archdep_home_path();
- /* First search in the `LIBDIR' then the $HOME/.vice/ dir (home_path)
- and then in the `boot_path'. */
+ /* First search in the `LIBDIR', then /usr/local/vice, then the home
dir
+ ($HOME/.vice/), and finally in the `boot_path'. */
#if defined(MINIXVMD) || defined(MINIX_SUPPORT)
default_path_temp = util_concat(LIBDIR, "/", emu_id,
ARCHDEP_FINDPATH_SEPARATOR_STRING,
@@ -207,12 +207,18 @@
home_path, "/", VICEUSERDIR, "/PRINTER",
NULL);
#else
default_path = util_concat(LIBDIR, "/", emu_id,
ARCHDEP_FINDPATH_SEPARATOR_STRING,
+ "/usr/local/vice/", emu_id,
ARCHDEP_FINDPATH_SEPARATOR_STRING,
+ "/usr/local/lib/vice/", emu_id,
ARCHDEP_FINDPATH_SEPARATOR_STRING,
home_path, "/", VICEUSERDIR, "/", emu_id,
ARCHDEP_FINDPATH_SEPARATOR_STRING,
boot_path, "/", emu_id,
ARCHDEP_FINDPATH_SEPARATOR_STRING,
LIBDIR, "/DRIVES",
ARCHDEP_FINDPATH_SEPARATOR_STRING,
+ "/usr/local/vice/DRIVES", emu_id,
ARCHDEP_FINDPATH_SEPARATOR_STRING,
+ "/usr/local/lib/vice/DRIVES", emu_id,
ARCHDEP_FINDPATH_SEPARATOR_STRING,
home_path, "/", VICEUSERDIR, "/DRIVES",
ARCHDEP_FINDPATH_SEPARATOR_STRING,
boot_path, "/DRIVES",
ARCHDEP_FINDPATH_SEPARATOR_STRING,
LIBDIR, "/PRINTER",
ARCHDEP_FINDPATH_SEPARATOR_STRING,
+ "/usr/local/vice/PRINTER", emu_id,
ARCHDEP_FINDPATH_SEPARATOR_STRING,
+ "/usr/local/lib/vice/PRINTER", emu_id,
ARCHDEP_FINDPATH_SEPARATOR_STRING,
home_path, "/", VICEUSERDIR, "/PRINTER",
ARCHDEP_FINDPATH_SEPARATOR_STRING,
boot_path, "/PRINTER", NULL);
#endif
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.8
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages vice depends on:
ii dpkg 1.18.25
ii install-info 6.3.0.dfsg.1-1+b2
ii libasound2 1.1.3-5
ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u4
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.8-1
ii libcairo2 1.14.8-1
ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.5-2+deb9u2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2
ii libgnutls30 3.5.8-5+deb9u4
ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.11-1
ii libieee1284-3 0.2.11-13
ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.5.1-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.5-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.5-1
ii libpcre2-8-0 10.32-4
ii libpng16-16 1.6.28-1
ii libpulse0 10.0-1+deb9u1
ii libreadline7 7.0-3
ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii libvte-2.91-0 0.46.1-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3+deb9u1
ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.4-1+b2
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
vice recommends no packages.
vice suggests no packages.
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