Am Mittwoch, 21. Januar 2009 17:48:27 schrieb Grant Edwards:

> Then all the stage3 tarballs I've ever seen are broken.  They
> either contain 5000+ entries, or nothing but these:

Yes they are. Having 5000+ entries in there while udev is in used is just 
stupid. I'm glad they've fixed that know.

> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-01-13 21:20 ./dev/
> -rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2009-01-13 21:20 ./dev/null
> lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/MAKEDEV ->
> ../sbin/MAKEDEV -rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/.keep
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/shm/
> -rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/shm/.keep
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/pts/
> -rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/pts/.keep

Yes, that's broken as well. All you need, as Neil wrote, is null and console.

> What I do know is that using a stage3 with 5000+ entries allows
> you to install using either the normal or quick install
> instructions.

And forcing you to remove them later, since they just waste inodes (on an 
inode based fs, of course).

> Using one with just the above /dev entries
> causes problems either way -- more so if using the quick
> install instructions since there is no step where you mount
> udev to /mnt/gentoo/dev.

So you need to file two bug reports ;-)

Bye...

        Dirk

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