On Sun 26 Apr 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> > with MAKEDEV -I you can create device files in the local directory,
> > even within fakeroot.
>
> No you can't. Making such files requires root permissions. Fakeroot emulates
> making them, but from outside fakeroot, they look l
Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a significant way for slink. Any work on device file consistency in
> cruft would be well-advised to wait a month or three, until this gets
> done. I'd hate to see a lot of work go into whacking around with the
> current MAKEDEV since I can't guarantee that
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
: with MAKEDEV -I you can create device files in the local directory,
: even within fakeroot. what about adding a list of the normal devices to cruft,
: and report obsolete devices, strange permissions, etc. this would require
: some cooperation with the m
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 01:06:35PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> i realy like cruft a lot ! i strongly suggest to all developers to check
> their systems, and improve the packages.
Thanks :)
> suggestion to the craft autor :
> with MAKEDEV -I you can create device files in the local directo
Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> with MAKEDEV -I you can create device files in the local directory,
> even within fakeroot.
No you can't. Making such files requires root permissions. Fakeroot emulates
making them, but from outside fakeroot, they look like normal 0 byte files.
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