Bug 6449

Summary: iBCS %install for kernel-2.2.12-20 won't work as a normal user
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: carenas
Component: kernelAssignee: Cristian Gafton <gafton>
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Hardware: i386   
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Description carenas 1999-10-28 05:28:25 UTC 
on the iBCS part for %install there are several calls to
mknod, which can no made as a normal user.  building the
iBCS devices would be better done on a %post script or
telling the user to use MAKDEV.iBCS which is installed
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-28 15:41:59 UTC 
If you do it in the %post, you can't verify the package correctly.
At some point, there might be a mechanism in RPM to allow for packaging
of special files in a different manner. Until then, we probably won't
fix this, or the dev package.