Your message dated Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:55:00 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1064931: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #268843, regarding makedev: DEVICES missing, and some manpages bugs to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: makedev Version: 2.3.1-74 Severity: normal option -V points user to /usr/share/doc/makedev ; manpage does not mention this directory, (nor does it mention this commanline option). manpage has no FILES section, which is especially a pity because manpage mentions 'file called =20 DEVICES', and locate can't find that file (on my system). it looks like MAKEDEV itself cant find that file either, as 'MAKEDEV -n update' generates a very long list of what it would =20 do, of which i only read last line : create hdd20 b 22 84 root:disk 0660 but ls -al /dev/hdd20 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 84 Mar 14 2002 /dev/hdd20 so there seems to be a bug here somewhere. note about possibly returned errors would be better placed in an =20 ERRORCODES section or somesuch, as this would make it much clearer that 'description' is rather =20 terse. @ hd{a..l} it says : AT (ide) hard disks. Device hdx provides access to whole disk, with partitions being hdx{1..63}. For i386, four primary partitions are hdx1 through hdx4, with logical partitions being numbered from hdx5 though =20 hdx20. BUG (A primary partition can be made into an extended partition, which can hold 4 logical partitions). Other architectures may not differentiate partition types. By default, devices for 20 logical partitions are made. Kernel supports up to 63 partitions per device. Drives hda and hdb are two on primary controller, hdc and hdd are two drives on secondary controller. These devices can also be used to access IDE CDROMs. Additional devices hd {e..l} can be created. a primary partition can be made into an extended partition, and can then be subpartitioned, but can no longer be used as a normal =20 partition itself. if there can be 4 primary partitions, each of which can hold 4 logical =20 partitions, and kernel supports 63 partitions per device, then does that mean i also have 43 illogical partitions ? :-) seriously, there can be more than 4 partitions in an extended =20 partition, currently my disk has 49 partitions, named /dev/hda1 through /dev/=20 hda50 and free space, and there is no /dev/hda4 (atleast cfdisk doesnt =20 show it). it might also be interesting to mention that hda is master device on =20 primary controller, while hdb is slave device (which therefore can't interrupt, it must =20 poll), afaik. (and hdc/hdd are similar) this makes it easier to identify which disk has which name, by =20 looking at cables. (but it may be a bit offtopic) is there a way to only create devices for which partitions exist ? if so, i would like a SEE ALSO entry for it :-) i thought i had read (in kernel-traffic most likely) that devices were going to be called /dev/hda/1 etc. ? (i am using a 2.6 kernel) -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages makedev depends on: ii base-passwd 3.5.7 Debian base system master password -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 2.3.1-97.1+rm Dear submitter, as the package makedev has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1064931 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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