Bug#502831: me-tv: piuparts test fails

Matthew Johnson mjj29 at debian.org
Wed Oct 22 10:25:51 UTC 2008


On Wed Oct 22 12:02, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * 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.
> 
Do we want to run makedev if both are installed though? I assumed if we
had udev active we didn't want to run it (and afaik, that's how you know
udev is active)

Matt
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Matthew Johnson
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