On 2009-01-21, Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinri...@online.de> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 21. Januar 2009 17:48:27 schrieb Grant Edwards:
>
>> Then all the stage3 tarballs I've ever seen are broken. They
>> either contain 5000+ entries, or nothing but these:
>
> Yes they are. Having 5000+ entries in there while udev is in
> used is just stupid. I'm glad they've fixed that know.
>
>> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2009-01-13 21:20 ./dev/
>> -rw-r--r-- root/root 0 2009-01-13 21:20 ./dev/null
>> lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/MAKEDEV ->
>> ../sbin/MAKEDEV -rw-r--r-- root/root 0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/.keep
>> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/shm/
>> -rw-r--r-- root/root 0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/shm/.keep
>> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/pts/
>> -rw-r--r-- root/root 0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/pts/.keep
>
> Yes, that's broken as well. All you need, as Neil wrote, is
> null and console.
>
>> What I do know is that using a stage3 with 5000+ entries allows
>> you to install using either the normal or quick install
>> instructions.
>
> And forcing you to remove them later, since they just waste
> inodes (on an inode based fs, of course).
>
>> Using one with just the above /dev entries causes problems
>> either way -- more so if using the quick install instructions
>> since there is no step where you mount udev to
>> /mnt/gentoo/dev.
>
> So you need to file two bug reports ;-)
Yup, I'll put them on my list of things to do:
1) bug report for quick-install
2) bug report for 2008.0 stage3 (too many useless /dev entries)
3) bug report for weekly autobuild stage3 (missing /dev/console)
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