With udev, are dev and MAKEDEV still required?

David T Hollis dhollis at davehollis.com
Wed Aug 25 14:06:30 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 15:36 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> does /dev/null exists when using udev?
> 
> 
On a normally running system - yes.  udev does not create /dev/null upon
RPM install/upgrade and there are no postinstall scripts, only a preun
to remove the service.

-- 
David T Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com>
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