On Monday 04 June 2001 00:59, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 02:37:19PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > Also make the package check for the presence of the character device > > /dev/.devfsd first, if that device exists then your script must not > > attempt to create the device node and it should be left for the kernel to > > do it! If you create a node under /dev when devfs is running it may > > result in an attempt to load the module, also the node will disappear on > > reboot! > > > > Another thing any package that depends on the creation of nodes under > > /dev MUST depend on "makedev | devfsd". People who run devfsd do not > > need to have makedev installed. > > Should this stuff go into policy?
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