dev-3.12-1
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Mon Sep 13 13:35:38 UTC 2004
On Sep 11, 2004, Paul <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
> Just another little one. dev-3.12-1 doesn't seem to be installable. All
> I get when I try to install it is that mounted devfs detected.
> Any way around this?
This seems to have worked for me:
mkdir /tmp/root-only
mount --bind / /tmp/root-only
chroot /tmp/root-only up2date -u dev
umount /tmp/root-only
rmdir /tmp/root-only
You may need additional --bind-mounting if you have say /usr or /var
in separate filesystems.
Just make sure you don't bind-mount /proc or /sys, otherwise dev will
tell /dev is a tmpfs and refuse to install. I *hope* the absence of
/proc and /sys won't prevent SELinux contexts from being set, but I'm
not entirely sure. Worst case, you may have to fixfiles /dev if you
ever boot without udev, so it's hopefully not a big deal.
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