Re: pxes packages

Diego Torres Milano <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.pxes.devel
Message-ID <1074057081.2906.10.camel@zebra>
It's not a bad option, but please document in some place that
devfs=nomount is no longer valid in those packages, just to prevent
dozen of emails asking why it doesn't work anymore.

Regards.
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 01:55, Sam Johnston wrote:
    Diego et al,
    
    Eliminating them altogether sounds like the best option to me. That in
    mind I'll get about updating my package(s) as I've a status report
    expected of me within two hours.
    
    Sam
    
    -- 
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    Australian Online Solutions
    http://www.aos.net.au/
    
    On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 01:49:14AM -0300, Diego Torres Milano wrote:
    > The device files can be created by post install (showing that this
    > restriction is useless because can be circumvented this way loosing
    > package control of these files) a script (as PXES Gentoo package does)
    > or can be eliminated.
    > As a matter of fact they are there just for the case where devfs=nomount
    > is specified in the kernel command line (something very unusual and only
    > intending for debugging mode).
    > 
    > Please, keep me informed.
    > 
    > Regards.
    > 
    > On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 00:04, Sam Johnston wrote:
    > 
    >     Afternoon Ghe,
    >     
    >     I was about to post to debian-devel about my pxes packages (which have
    >     not made it into Debian yet because they include device files which
    >     violates policy). I was going to reference ITPs I should have filed
    >     months ago and found that you have filed 3 ITPs yourself about 6 weeks
    >     ago. I have an immediate need for a maintainable PXES installation on
    >     Debian servers and have been busying myself updating my 0.6-4 packages
    >     to 0.7-1. How are your packages progressing? How do you intend to
    >     resolve the policy violation? Have you discovered any other problems
    >     which need attention?
    >     
    >     Sam
    >     
    >     -- 
    >     Sam Johnston, Director
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    > 
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