Description of problem:

MAKDEV places the 'MAKEDEV' binary into /dev. This is bad because:

* this binary will be missing on systems with devfs 
* this binary will be missing on systems with special requirements 
  regarding /dev; e.g. the fedora.us buildsystem has 
  '%_netsharedpath /dev' (--> nothing inside /dev will be created)

Since MAKEDEV is not used to create /dev entries only, but to create
%attr() entries from rpm-specfiles (-M option), package build will 
fail on the systems above.

My suggestion:
Please move the MAKEDEV binary into /sbin, and create a symlink to
/dev/MAKEDEV. Such a symlink can be created easily on the systems
mentioned above.

The %pre check for devfs can be removed too when doing this.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

MAKEDEV-3.3.12-1