fakeroot fails to handle device files

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Hello All,

fakeroot (as of today's unstable) fails to handle device files
correctly, at least on my mips box. This means the d-i images
have _regular_ files in /dev:


iris14:~/devel/debian-installer$ ls -l build/tmp/netboot/tree/dev/*
-rw-r--r--    1 ica2_ts  csv             0 Nov 20 21:39
build/tmp/netboot/tree/dev/console

build/tmp/netboot/tree/dev/rd:
total 0
-rw-r--r--    1 ica2_ts  csv             0 Nov 20 21:39 0

build/tmp/netboot/tree/dev/vc:
total 0
-rw-r--r--    1 ica2_ts  csv             0 Nov 20 21:39 0
-rw-r--r--    1 ica2_ts  csv             0 Nov 20 21:39 1
-rw-r--r--    1 ica2_ts  csv             0 Nov 20 21:39 2
-rw-r--r--    1 ica2_ts  csv             0 Nov 20 21:39 3
-rw-r--r--    1 ica2_ts  csv             0 Nov 20 21:39 4
-rw-r--r--    1 ica2_ts  csv             0 Nov 20 21:39 5


Of course, booting from them fails with "unable to open an initial
console". Running "fakeroot mknod ..." shows the same problem. Has
anybody else seen this, or is just my installation broken?


Thiemo