Bdale Garbee writes in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (20:08:53 Wednesday 6
October 1999):
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> > makedev 2.3.1-19, which is on the CD I have, seems to have a bug in
> > it, in that the postinst script creates the devices in / instead of
> > /dev.
>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> makedev 2.3.1-19, which is on the CD I have, seems to have a bug in
> it, in that the postinst script creates the devices in / instead of
> /dev.
The makedev package creates devices in the current working directory. This has
been the behavior of all ma
Adam Di Carlo writes in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (14:06:51 6 October 1999):
> Yes, but the "running slink with kernel 2.2" page *assumes* you are
> running a fully up-to-date slink. So mentioning 'makedev' explicitly
> doesn't make sense if it's already fixed in 2.1r3.
>
> All you are s
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raj Manandhar) writes:
> So the bottom line is: one needs a newer makedev. The current stable
> one works, for example. Perhaps there are similar problems for other
> packages that made it onto older slink CDs, too, so it might be a good
> idea to add the FTP site to /etc/apt/so
Package: www.debian.org
Version: current
On the page
http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/running-kernel-2.2
there is a list of various potentially problematic packages. makedev
should be added to the list, because the kernel pty/ttyp majors
changed in 2.2.x (in fact the change seems to be t
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