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Richard Fish wrote:

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> gentuxx wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I went to do my routine "emerge -Duptv world" and it came back with
>> devfsd blocking gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3. I'm not sure whether I'm
>> using udev now or not. I remember compiling into the kernel last time
>> I did a kernel compile. Naturally, when I did the "emerge -Cpv
>> devfsd" it complained that I was unemerging something in the system
>> profile, and that it could damage my system. So I just thought I
>> would check here before hurting anything. ;-)
>>
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> Take a look at the RC_DEVICES setting in /etc/conf.d/rc. If that
> says "auto" or "udev", then you are using udev and can safely remove
> devfs. Another way to check is to look at the output of "mount |
> grep /dev". Here is what it says for me:
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> udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid)
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> If you are still using devfs, this will probably say "type devfs".
>
> -Richard
>
No devfs.  I guess I was thinking that udev WAS devfs.  I also found
this:  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/devfs-guide.xml, which was a
help.  ;-)

Thanks.

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