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Re: How to package device files?



>Not to mention the fact that some other kernels don't use the same device
>node numbers as Linux... while we can do hackery in a MAKEDEV script fairly
>easily, to catch common names and do soemthing useful with them (in many
>cases it should 'just work', in fact), trying to cope with doing direct
>numeric mknods is going to cause your package to be utterly uninstallable
>on any of the non-linux arches. If it's a Linux-specific package, that's
>no big deal, of course, but it's something to keep in mind if it's not.

The package contains a device driver module. So, yes, it's Linux-specific.

Are there Debian systems that aren't Linux?  

Is there a Debian BSD?

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