Re: ITP: devfsd
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 10:24:16PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Elie Rosenblum wrote:
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> > I like the idea of a program you can run that updates a file (like
> > /etc/devfs/debian_dev.conf) that is sourced with a devfsd.conf
> > OPTIONAL_INCLUDE directive, using data pulled from makedev's
> > information source. It can then be overridden by /etc/devfs/local.conf
> > by the user, and the default /etc/devfs/devfsd.conf would just by
> > default do OPTIONAL_INCLUDE on both files.
>
> I like this, it would be nice if the debian default for all entries was
> nicely defined and stored in a file that is updated on upgrades. The local
> admin can edit 'some other' config file to change things around. I always
> seem to have /dev files with the wrong permissions *bother*
Aye. What I envision is a program that dumps makedev's database into
debian_dev.conf, with local.conf overriding it.
Then something like the proposed directory with rules for making deb
specific symlinks and such, for things other than just standard dev
permissions.
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