With udev, are dev and MAKEDEV still required?

dragoran dragoran at feuerpokemon.de
Wed Aug 25 13:36:43 UTC 2004


David T Hollis schrieb:

>On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 23:07 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
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>>On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:15:34 -0400, David T Hollis
>><dhollis at davehollis.com> wrote:
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>>>With udev now handling /dev and repopulating upon reboot, it seems that
>>>the dev and MAKEDEV packages are no longer relevant.  
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>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130746
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>>I'm not sure its safe to say the static dev packages are completely
>>irrelevant now.
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>In looking into the dev requirement for which (which struck me as quite
>odd), I found this bug report:
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99275 .  The which
>package needs dev so that the postinstall scripts calling install-info
>can use "> /dev/null".  There were ordering problems with 'which' being
>installed before 'dev' since 'which' doesn't have much in the way of
>requirements.  I suppose it may be better to have a requirement
>on /dev/null, though currently only 'dev' provides it.  If there is a
>future without 'dev' (optional or mandatory), that sort of scenario will
>need to be addressed.
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does /dev/null exists when using udev?





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