Thierry Vignaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > there used to have one for at least a year. > for now, we can do updates while devfs is mounted; we just cannot > upgrade from dev < 3.3.1 to dev => 3.3.1 withouh some help, aka > either: > - kill devfsd before upgrading MAKEDEV and dev > - mkdir /M; mount --bind / /M;mount --bind /M/dev /dev > and umounting these after dev and MAKEDEV packages. > > note that these hacks're needed *only* for *live update* of pre 3.3.1 > packages.
correction: live update will work but will be slow (half a hour) since rpm will stat all files from old dev packages (~~ 16000 files), thus asking devfsd to run the same number of modprobe/...
