On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 03:42:03PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > I'm not in front of my Debian box. What is used to generate the /dev nodes ? > A > postinstall script ? of which package ? Is it in the base.tgz ?
the nodes in /dev are in base2_2.tgz, but they are also generated/maintained by /dev/MAKEDEV in the makedev package. when this package is upgraded any new standard nodes are created. IMO makedev should have been taught about the /dev/input/* nodes and put into r2. (since the new kernel that went into r2 uses them) makedev would have been upgraded, its postinst would have updated /dev creating /dev/input and everything would be everything again. (except gpm and X would probably have to be fixed by the user or they might have to repoint /dev/mouse but thats not so bad) > ... Maybe switching to devfs would fix the node creation part oh god no, please no... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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