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Bug 116009

Summary: MAKEDEV binary should not be in /dev
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla>
Component: MAKEDEVAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Enrico Scholz 2004-02-17 16:12:11 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2004-08-26 10:45:48 UTC 
yes, please make this happen!