On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:19:25PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 03:51:11PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > The new makedev package is erasing people's /dev/ directories. Apparently > > the maintainer script has a bug that causes /dev/ to become a file which > > makes dpkg erase /dev/ and replace it with a file.. Bugs all round. > > > > Since this is rather serious, I have erased makedev from potato/bianry-all > > - a copy of the .deb is in my home dir. I have also purged it from the > > primary mirrors. Daniel Jacobowitz has NMU'd it just now as well. > > > > Jason > > Debian Admin > > > > > Well, which version of makedev does this affect? I have 2.3.1-26 > installed, and am not experiencing problems.
2.3.1-27 is the evil one. 2.3.1-27.2 is the fixed version that should be in the archive soon. William Cordis -- Student for Life. =-)
