Bug#864734: pre-exist /dev/pts cause failure on debootstrap

[Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp>]

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On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 22:05:51 +0900 Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp> wrote:
>  Why did you exec "mkdir /mnt/{dev, dev/pts, proc, sys}"?
>  It's unnecessary. Just run debootstrap works fine.

 Anyway, here's a patch for it.



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Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.org/iijmio-mail.jp

>From 886fc787c15f57cdd7530907b83d5ca1c9ef348c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:20:20 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid pre-exist directory causes failure

Fix Bug#864734
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 functions | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/functions b/functions
index 3cfa0d4..43969ee 100644
--- a/functions
+++ b/functions
@@ -1170,7 +1170,8 @@ setup_devices_simple () {
        mknod -m 666 $TARGET/dev/random c 1 8
        mknod -m 666 $TARGET/dev/urandom        c 1 9
        mknod -m 666 $TARGET/dev/tty    c 5 0
-       mkdir $TARGET/dev/pts/ $TARGET/dev/shm/
+       # To avoid pre-exist directory causes error, specify "-p" option
+       mkdir -p $TARGET/dev/pts/ $TARGET/dev/shm/
        # Inside a container, we might not be allowed to create /dev/ptmx.
        # If not, do the next best thing.
        if ! mknod -m 666 $TARGET/dev/ptmx c 5 2; then
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