dev rpm update problem
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
Sat Sep 11 09:21:19 UTC 2004
Mircea MITU wrote:
>>I get this error when updating to dev-3.11-1:
>>
>>Cannot install the dev package: mounted devfs detected.
>>error: %pre(dev-3.11-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
>>error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping dev-3.11-1
>>
>>I know this was happening previously with the MAKEDEV rpm, but it seems
>>like it was solved in that case (by removing the %pre script?).
>>
>>Anyway, how do I upgrade the package? Is this a bug?
>
>
> I had the same problem but upgrading from dev-3.11-1 to dev-3.12-1
>
> The pre-install script of the rpm is looking for devfs into /proc/mounts
> and it founds none /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
>
What I'm wondering is, why doesn't the people working on udev in the
distribution realize this is a problem? Is their configuration
non-default and they are not hitting this problem like everyone else?
Warren
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