On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:07:04 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > And (4) MAKEDEV would fail nevertheless because udev is active. > MAKEDEV does not fail even if udev is active, so I can't see what's the > problem with the above snippet/patch?
I tried it and it did fail.
Method:
* Depends: on "udev, makedev" to get both an active udev and
/dev/MAKEDEV
* don't check for /dev/.udev{,db} in .postinst
Result:
1) lintian:
depends-exclusively-on-makedev
"... relies on makedev to create devices, which won't work if udev is
installed and running."
2) piuparts:
[..]
Get:1 http://ftp.at.debian.org sid/main libvolume-id0 0.125-7 [76.1kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.at.debian.org sid/main udev 0.125-7 [253kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.at.debian.org sid/main makedev 2.3.1-88 [42.3kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.at.debian.org sid/main adduser 3.110 [184kB]
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Fetched 555kB in 0s (3102kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package libvolume-id0.
(Reading database ... 5796 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libvolume-id0 (from .../libvolume-id0_0.125-7_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package udev.
Unpacking udev (from .../archives/udev_0.125-7_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package makedev.
Unpacking makedev (from .../makedev_2.3.1-88_all.deb) ...
Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/makedev ...
Selecting previously deselected package adduser.
Unpacking adduser (from .../archives/adduser_3.110_all.deb) ...
Setting up libvolume-id0 (0.125-7) ...
Setting up udev (0.125-7) ...
unable to open device '/class/net/*'
A chroot environment has been detected, udev not started.
Setting up makedev (2.3.1-88) ...
.udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation.
.udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation.
Setting up adduser (3.110) ...
Setting up piuparts-depends-dummy (0.invalid.0) ...
[..]
Selecting previously deselected package iodine.
(Reading database ... 5973 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking iodine (from tmp/iodine_0.4.2-2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up iodine (0.4.2-2) ...
Creating device /dev/net/tun ...
.udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation.
> > + if [ ! -e /dev/.udev ] && [ ! -e /dev/.udevdb ] && [ -x
> > /dev/MAKEDEV ] ; then
> Better not mess with hidden directories...
I could drop it because
"./MAKEDEV tun || true"
still works, just the error messages are ugly ...
Cheers,
gregor
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