Re: Bad Makedevness

1999-08-03 Thread William_Cordis
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:19:25PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 03:51:11PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > The new makedev package is erasing people's /dev/ directories. Apparently > > the maintainer script has a bug that causes /dev/ to become a file which > > make

Re: Bad Makedevness

1999-08-03 Thread William_Cordis
Well the updated deb fixed the problem.. If you are stuck in limbo get it here. http://master.debian.org/~dan/Incoming/makedev_2.3.1-27.2_all.deb William Cordis

Re: Bad Makedevness

1999-08-03 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 03:51:11PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > The new makedev package is erasing people's /dev/ directories. Apparently > the maintainer script has a bug that causes /dev/ to become a file which > makes dpkg erase /dev/ and replace it with a file.. Bugs all round. > > Since

Re: Bad Makedevness

1999-08-02 Thread striker
Ok so now what.. dpkg sticks on the portion of the script "rm -fr /dev.dpkg.tmp" It refused to unlink /dev/pts because it didn't exist. It leaves you with a /dev.dpkg.tmp and /dev which is an executable. It seems that the /dev left by the install was actually the MAKEDEV program. I made a /dev di

Bad Makedevness

1999-08-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
The new makedev package is erasing people's /dev/ directories. Apparently the maintainer script has a bug that causes /dev/ to become a file which makes dpkg erase /dev/ and replace it with a file.. Bugs all round. Since this is rather serious, I have erased makedev from potato/bianry-all - a cop