On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:07:05 -0700 (PDT) >From: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [email protected] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Subject: RE: calling MAKEDEV from postinst > >> >> It concerns the fact that MAKEDEV is called from the postinst to create >> the required ISDN devices, without first asking the user for permission. >> > >It does seem a bit odd. Most packages seem to ignore that piece of policy. >Only plausible rationale would be the "sysadmins are cranky and want to know >what every package is doing", which does not seem to match Debian's current >goals.
We currently AFAIR have all device nodes in a single RPM package in RHL, however this may change.. I think we're adding support to RPM to allow stuff like: %dev(device flags, etc...) Does dpkg et al. have something similar, and if not, would it be considered something useful? I can try to get/provide details if it would be helpful. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris ----------------------------------------------------------------------
