Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Archaic wrote: CC'ing blfs-dev, but please reply to lfs-dev as that is where the bug is currently ticketed. http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1640 My thoughts are that the actual devices are created properly, and nothing in the base system needs the symlinks so I vote for moving

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread DJ Lucas
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Archaic wrote: CC'ing blfs-dev, but please reply to lfs-dev as that is where the bug is currently ticketed. http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1640 My thoughts are that the actual devices are created properly, and nothing in the base system needs the symlinks so I

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread Matthew Burgess
Archaic wrote: My thoughts are that the actual devices are created properly, and nothing in the base system needs the symlinks so I vote for moving this ticket to BLFS. The actual devices (/dev/hdc on my box) are created correctly, but the symlinks are incorrect if one has multiple CD/DVD

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread M.Canales.es
El Martes, 21 de Marzo de 2006 23:31, Matthew Burgess escribió: The actual devices (/dev/hdc on my box) are created correctly, but the symlinks are incorrect if one has multiple CD/DVD drives. Therefore, the bug is rightly an LFS one. Now, with the observation that the underlying devices

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread Matthew Burgess
M.Canales.es wrote: And why not to add the CLFS udev-rules package to the udev_update branch and see if it do their intended work? I don't know what they are intended to do. No bugs have been reported against the rules in the udev_update branch regarding devices not showing up correctly

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread DJ Lucas
Matthew Burgess wrote: Archaic wrote: My thoughts are that the actual devices are created properly, and nothing in the base system needs the symlinks so I vote for moving this ticket to BLFS. The actual devices (/dev/hdc on my box) are created correctly, but the symlinks are incorrect if

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
DJ Lucas wrote these words on 03/21/06 19:23 CST: IMO, it needs to be in _one_ of the books. BLFS software, at least at one time, required various symlinks. Other software beyond BLFS I know still requires /dev/dvd. Some may require the links (but in my opinion that makes it poorly

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: DJ Lucas wrote these words on 03/21/06 19:23 CST: IMO, it needs to be in _one_ of the books. BLFS software, at least at one time, required various symlinks. Other software beyond BLFS I know still requires /dev/dvd. Some may require the links (but in my opinion

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 03/21/06 19:49 CST: It would also be nice for software to have configuration files where you could specify the devices as needed e.g. xorg.conf. You guys are just being too cool for the chances to be putting in the shameless plugs. From the configuration file