/dev nodes in buildroots Re: x86_64 blocks i386?

[Warren Togami]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 20:24 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 
>>About the gpgme[03] problem - I have a sneaking suspicion it has
>>something to do with dev/udev. I think the lack of a lot of items in dev
>>is maybe affecting the builds. That's something else I'm planning on
>>looking at. maybe with a bind-mount to /dev on the normal system.
>>
>>we shall see.
> 
> 
> I'd highly recommend doing this.  It's not a huge stretch as it's what
> we do in the buildroots for Core builds at this point as well.
> 

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Apr 17  2003 fd -> 
../proc/self/fd
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       1,   7 Dec 11 15:49 full
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       1,   3 Dec 11 15:49 null
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       5,   2 Dec 11 15:49 ptmx
crw-r--r--    1 root     root       1,   8 Dec 11 15:49 random
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       5,   0 Dec 11 15:49 tty
crw-r--r--    1 root     root       1,   9 Dec 11 15:49 urandom
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       1,   5 Dec 11 15:49 zero

Instead I highly recommend creating ONLY these device nodes within 
buildroots.  All fedora.us packages have been built with this minimal 
set of nodes for years.  This also helps security because disk and many 
other device nodes are kept away from buildroots.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com