From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040308 Description of problem: The make file tries to create a node in the /dev directory which: a) you must be root to do -and- b) is not anywhere that rpm can package it later I will attach a patch that fixes this bug. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): SysVinit-2.85-32 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpmbuild -bb SysVinit.spec Additional info:
Created attachment 103488 [details] A patch that fixes the problem
Created attachment 103508 [details] New patch Actually, there are a couple commands right before the mknod that needs the $(ROOT) variable added. It makes no difference to the outcome, but is more complete.
Fixed in -34, thanks!
Package name is now sysvinit in latest Fedora.