Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz
Steven Chamberlain <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips |
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| Message-ID | <20160110184857.GA58661__7838.61104068837$1452453673$gmane$org@pyro.eu.org> |
Hi, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 10, Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have a bug report with a patch by Marco against debootstrap (see > > attachment), which changes how devices are generated; I can't really > > tell how much this might affect all of you (especially with debootstrap > It is not supposed to, since both hurd and kfreebsd already used > a different method to manage /dev. Yes, the code Marco changed cannot be reached when HOST_OS is kfreebsd*, freebsd* or hurd*. kfreebsd devfs provides all the device nodes without manually creating any or using devices.tar.gz; even for more exotic use cases like BSD jails. hurd appears to have something equivalent. Thanks for letting us know. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain [email protected]
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