On 01/24/2014 06:13 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Shea Levy <[email protected]> writes: >> > Another option is to mount a devtmpfs there, for systems which support it.
devtmpfs may give different devices on each machine and they may hinder our build reproducibility. > The thing is, we don't actually want most of the system's devices to be > in the build environment, do we? These are all impurities. I don't > think we want /dev/sda, for example. Sure, I agree. I propose we start enumerating commonly needed devices and create them. If in future, a package requires access to certain device while building (or during tests) we can include it in our list of created device nodes. Sree _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
