On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 01:06:35PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > i realy like cruft a lot ! i strongly suggest to all developers to check > their systems, and improve the packages.
Thanks :)
> suggestion to the craft autor :
> with MAKEDEV -I you can create device files in the local directory,
> even within fakeroot. what about adding a list of the normal devices to cruft,
> and report obsolete devices, strange permissions, etc. this would require
> some cooperation with the makedev maintainer, but would be realy good.
I've already mentioned this to Andreas on irc, but I've got a first draft
of this implemented -- it currently checks that you have exactly those
devices listed in MAKEDEV's generic "batch". Andreas also suggested that
it should allow, but not require, *any* device file MAKEDEV knows about,
which will require a little reworking of cruft, so I've left that until
I have a little time to think about it.
What I'm using at the moment is a new version of /usr/lib/cruft/explain/dev,
which looks something like:
---
#!/bin/sh
if [ -x /dev/MAKEDEV ]; then
/dev/MAKEDEV -In generic | grep -v '^l' | awk '{ print "/dev/" $8 }'
/dev/MAKEDEV -In generic | grep '^l' | awk '{ print "/dev/" $2 }'
fi
---
If you copy that into /etc/cruft/explain/dev, it will override the dev
explanation thingy that's distributed with cruft, without messing with
.deb'ed files, btw.
Just FYI.
Cheers,
aj
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