Hi .. thnx for your answer .. On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:07:07AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: >> I'm maintaining pbbuttonsd for PPC-Notebooks. >> I'm preparing the new upstream version and I stuck at this point, that >> the pbbuttonsd wants to have a link /dev/cdrom. >Can the software not function without /dev/cdrom? Unless I'm mistaken, >this software has plenty of uses even if there's no cdrom installed in >the machine. The softwares behavior on missing devices is cruel ;( If the /dev/cdrom does not exists, it will stop starting ... To solve this, I see two ways, set the link /dev/cdrom or put the right device into the the configfile .. >The best way to make sure the /dev/cdrom link is present is to check for >it, use debconf to prompt the user if it's absent, and then create the >link (possibly with some /proc autodetection) if the user agrees to let >you create the link. yes .... I think this, too ... thnx Jan -- .''`. Jan-Hendrik Palic | : :' : ** Debian GNU/ Linux ** | ** OpenOffice.org ** ,.. ,.. `. `' http://www.debian.org | http://www.openoffice.org ,: ..` ` `- jan.palic@linux-debian.de | ' ` `
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