/dev nodes in buildroots Re: x86_64 blocks i386?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:00:47 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:

> 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.

Very good. It was /dev/urandom that fixed it.