Bug#502831: me-tv: piuparts test fails

[Adeodato Simó]

* Matthew Johnson [Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:33:11 +0100]:

> makedev | udev is fine, but you must then not try and run MAKEDEV if it
> is udev installed instead. The normal way of doing this (which is in my
> patch) is:

> if [ ! -e /dev/.udev ]; then
>    /sbin/MAKEDEV .....
> fi

The patch should do something like:

  if [ -x /dev/MAKEDEV ]; then
    echo "creating foo devices..."
    /dev/MAKEDEV foo
  fi

And not mess with hidden directories.

HTH,

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