On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9739 > rc.single needs to be adjusted here, because init s apparently kills udev. > Should be easy, I'll take care of it. > > - New udev breaks installation: post_install doesn't create /dev/console > anymore. If /dev/console does not exist, kinit will fail to switch to the > rootfs and the kernel will panic. This is due to the removal of > migrate-udev. We need to include this code into the post_install: > > TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d /tmp/udev.XXXXXX) > mount --bind / $(TMPDIR) > [ -c $(TMPDIR)/dev/console ] || mknod .... > [ -c $(TMPDIR)/dev/null ] || mknod .... > [ -c $(TMPDIR)/dev/zero ] || mknod .... > umount $(TMPDIR) > rmdir $(TMPDIR) > > We also need to make sure this works when pacman is used with the -r option. > Maybe we don't need the bind mount, as udev installation is never done in a > running system anymore, but only from a chroot or in the installer.
I doubt we need all that TMPDIR malarky. It doesn't even make sense to me. Just use mknod on /dev/*
