Error installing dev update

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 06:31:12PM +0200, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> Phil Schaffner wrote:
> 
> >Running "yum upgrade" generated the following...
> >
> >Cannot install the dev package: mounted devfs detected.
> >error: %pre(dev-3.9.1-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> >error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping dev-3.9.1-1
> >
> >How does one update the dev package?
> 
> ??
> 
> # rpm -Fvh --nopre /path/to/dev*
> 
> eg.
> /var/cache/yum/developement/packages/dev*
> 
> ??

Er, that gives you a /dev/MAKEDEV symlink in udev which (I think) goes
away when you reboot, and a lingering binary in the root partition's
/dev directory which isn't current.  Not that I have a proper solution.

Nalin