gnomebaker problems

[Rick Marshall]

After upgrading from FC6 to F7 gnomebaker stopped working.

After poking around again I found that the reason is that gnomebaker is 
trying to open /dev/sr0 as the scsi recording device, but in my F7 that 
doesn't exist.

However these do exist:

[root at rjm src]# ls -l /dev/*sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/cdrom-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/cdrw-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/cdwriter-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/dvdrw-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/dvd-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/dvdwriter-sr0 -> scd0

So I added the line:

ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/sr0

to /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99local and gnomebaker works.

Why does it get it wrong? Well...

[root at rjm src]# cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17

drive name:             sr0
drive speed:            24
drive # of slots:       1
Can close tray:         1
Can open tray:          1
Can lock tray:          1
Can change speed:       1
Can select disk:        0
Can read multisession:  1
Can read MCN:           1
Reports media changed:  1
Can play audio:         1
Can write CD-R:         1
Can write CD-RW:        1
Can read DVD:           1
Can write DVD-R:        1
Can write DVD-RAM:      1
Can read MRW:           1
Can write MRW:          1
Can write RAM:          1

so I guess gnomebaker assumes there is a node called /dev/sr0, but 
obviously F7 is trying to be friendly by creating specific nodes based 
on the capabilities of the device and then I assume an application can 
open the appropriate device.

Should gnomebaker be changed? or would it be friendly for F7 to also 
create the generic node /dev/sr0 at startup as well as the capability 
specific nodes?

Thanks
Rick