RE: calling MAKEDEV from postinst
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:07:05 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@home.com>
>To: Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>
>Cc: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Subject: RE: calling MAKEDEV from postinst
>
>>
>> It concerns the fact that MAKEDEV is called from the postinst to create
>> the required ISDN devices, without first asking the user for permission.
>>
>
>It does seem a bit odd. Most packages seem to ignore that piece of policy.
>Only plausible rationale would be the "sysadmins are cranky and want to know
>what every package is doing", which does not seem to match Debian's current
>goals.
We currently AFAIR have all device nodes in a single RPM package
in RHL, however this may change.. I think we're adding support
to RPM to allow stuff like:
%dev(device flags, etc...)
Does dpkg et al. have something similar, and if not, would it be
considered something useful? I can try to get/provide details if
it would be helpful.
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