2010/3/4 Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Lluís Batlle <[email protected]> writes: > >> Any idea on how to get device nodes into tar or cpio archives from a nix >> build? > > For cpio, perhaps you could pass a tweaked file list to “cpio -ov”? > (info "(cpio) Tutorial") I could read /dev only if not building in a chroot, and it may not be trivial to keep proper paths in the archive, with files from TMPDIR and /dev.
By now, the only solution I now goes through the special cpio archiver that comes with linux, which may be a bit annoying to build. And for 'tar', maybe there is a tar implementation that would allow that? I still have to check those. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
