On Jun 09, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote: > This works well in most cases but if you're using udev when installing the > package, MAKEDEV will not be called and the device has no chance to be > created on the on-disk filesystem. If you later remove udev, you will have > a broken system since the device won't be present. Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this. Doctor: Then stop doing it. If you remove udev then you are on your own. > 1/ udev to keep mounting the on-disk /dev on /dev/.static/dev I removed this in 0.124-1, before lenny, and it will not be back. > In any case, I would like the result of this discussion to be summarized > in a README.Debian in makedev at the very least and possibly in the Debian makedev has extra priority and is not installed by default, it does not matter anymore. > Note that debian-installer was trying to do well and was mounting > the underlying /target/dev as /target/dev/.static/dev but the current code > is not working (see #585133). This code should be removed. -- ciao, Marco
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