On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:20:00AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > reopen 449049 > retitle 449049 must not use /sbin/MAKEDEV > thanks > > On Nov 02, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > package:makedev contains /sbin/MAKEDEV and its initscript creates the > > link /dev/MAKEDEV => /sbin/MAKEDEV. powermgmt-base.postinst does: > > cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV -v apm; but the link isn't apparently guaranteed > > to exist when this is called. > It is. If it does not exist then your system is broken. What about under a chroot environment (like live-helper)? Should all the packages that do cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV actually do the udev /proc/1/root test? Or should MAKEDEV itself test /proc/1/root = / && exit?
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