Bug 131075

Summary: MAKEDEV won't install while udev is active
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michael Young <m.a.young>
Component: MAKEDEVAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Hardware: i386   
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Fixed In Version: 3.9.2-1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-08-31 15:43:28 UTC Type: ---
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Description Michael Young 2004-08-27 10:15:27 UTC 
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Description of problem:
You can't install or upgrade MAKEDEV (3.9-1) while udev is active, as
the preinstall script stops you with an error about devfs. If MAKEDEV
and udev are supposed to coexist this is clearly a problem.
Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2004-08-30 11:32:26 UTC 
one could:

%pre
mount --move /dev /tmp/dev

and after updating /dev

%post
mount --move /tmp/dev /dev
Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2004-08-30 16:17:09 UTC 
That introduces a race condition if permissions as set by udev don't
match what the dev package contains -- I'd rather not go there.
Comment 3 Nalin Dahyabhai 2004-08-31 15:43:28 UTC 
Supposedly udev and/or initscripts will conspire together to make sure
that /dev/MAKEDEV is present, so it can be removed from the package. 
Because the MAKEDEV package no longer stores anything in /dev, the
%pre scriptlet can be removed as well.