Re: fakeroot fails to handle device files
> 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:
Er, it _does_ handle them correctly.
% fakeroot sh -c 'mknod /tmp/fives c 5 5 ; ls -l /tmp/fives';ls -l /tmp/fives
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 5, 5 2003-11-25 09:49 /tmp/fives
-rw-r--r-- 1 clint clint 0 2003-11-25 09:49 /tmp/fives
fakeroot doesn't grant you additional privileges. If you can't make
real device nodes without fakeroot, you can't make real device nodes
with it; only fake ones.
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