Re: About devices files into sources

I think the best option is to force a root install because devices are 
not the only files that need  to be installed as root there's one setuid 
file (suid-admin).

Chris Gianelloni wrote:

>I had to deal with exactly this same thing when creating the Gentoo
>ebuild.  I've attached my version of the makedevices.sh script.  I think
>now if you use devfs, you only need a limited number of the device
>nodes.  I, too, would like to reduce this number, or remove them from
>the sources altogether, as they create problems during decompression of
>the tarball when run as a normal user.
>
>On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 11:47, Ghe Rivero wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi to all!
>>
>>	I'm Ghe Rivero, and at this moment i'm preparing the pxes* packages for
>>Debian. 
>>
>>	I want to know if there is any special reason to have al the devices
>>created an included in the source. I think this is not necesary
>>and if anyone without root permisions descompress it, he will get an
>>error. 
>>	
>>	I have a script to created when the package is instaled. I have no time
>>now to integrate it into original sources, but if you think that this
>>aproach is correct, feel free to do it. Any advice is welcomed.
>>
>>	Ghe Rivero
>>    
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>#!/bin/bash
>>
>>DEV1=/opt/pxes-0.6/stock/dist/dev
>>DEV2=/opt/pxes-0.6/stock/initrd/dev
>>
>>if [ ! -d ${DEV1} ]; then
>>	mkdir -p ${DEV1}
>>fi
>>
>>cd ${DEV1}
>>mkdir input pts
>>mknod agpgart c 10 175
>>mknod audio0 c 14 4
>>ln -s audio0 audio
>>mknod console c 5 1
>>mknod dsp c 14 3
>>mknod dsp1 c 14 19
>>for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
>>	mknod fb${i} c 29 $(( ${i} * 32 ))
>>done
>>ln -s fb0 fb
>>mknod fd0 b 2 0
>>mknod fd1 b 2 1
>>mknod fd0H1440 b 2 28
>>mknod gart c 174 0
>>mknod hda b 3 0
>>for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do
>>	mknod hda${i} b 3 ${i}
>>done
>>mknod hdb b 3 64
>>mknod hdc b 22 0
>>ln -s hdc cdrom
>>mknod hdd b 22 64
>>mknod kbd c 11 0
>>mknod lp0 c 6 0
>>mknod lp1 c 6 1
>>chmod 666 lp0 lp1
>>chgrp lp lp0 lp1
>>mknod mem c 1 1
>>mknod mixer c 14 0
>>mknod null c 1 3
>>mknod openprm c 10 139
>>mknod psaux c 10 1
>>ln -s psaux mouse
>>mknod ptmx c 5 2
>>for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do
>>	mknod ptyp${i} c 2 ${i}
>>	chmod 666 ptyp${i}
>>	chgrp tty ptyp${i}
>>done
>>mknod ram b 1 1
>>mknod tty c 5 0
>>chmod 666 tty
>>for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do
>>	mknod tty${i} c 4 ${i}
>>done
>>for i in 0 1 2 3; do
>>	mknod ttyS${i} c 4 $(( ${i} + 64 ))
>>	chgrp tty ttyS${i}
>>done
>>for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do
>>	mknod ttyp${i} c 3 ${i}
>>	chgrp tty ttyp${i}
>>	chmod 666 ttyp${i}
>>done
>>mknod zero c 1 5
>>cd input
>>mknod keyboard c 10 150
>>chmod 600 keyboard
>>mknod mice c 13 63
>>
>>if [ ! -d ${DEV2} ]; then
>>	mkdir -p ${DEV2}
>>fi
>>
>>cd ${DEV2}
>>mknod console c 5 1
>>mknod hda b 3 0
>>mknod hdb b 3 64
>>mknod hdc b 22 0
>>ln -s hdc cdrom
>>mknod hdd b 22 64
>>mknod lvm b 109 0
>>mknod null c 1 3
>>mknod ram b 1 1
>>mknod sda2 b 8 2
>>chgrp disk sda2
>>chmod 660 sda2
>>mknod systty c 4 0
>>for i in 0 1 2 3 4; do
>>	mknod tty${i} c 4 ${i}
>>done
>>mknod zero c 1 5
>>    
>>


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