Bug#46799: add makedev to notes on running slink with kernel 2.2.x

[raj@colsa.com (Raj Manandhar)]

Package: www.debian.org
Version: current

On the page

http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/running-kernel-2.2

there is a list of various potentially problematic packages. makedev
should be added to the list, because the kernel pty/ttyp majors
changed in 2.2.x (in fact the change seems to be there in 2.0.36, too,
but with backwards compatibility).

makedev 2.3.1-19, which is on the CD I have, seems to have a bug in
it, in that the postinst script creates the devices in / instead of
/dev. It looks like this is fixed in the current stable version
2.3.1-23 (which I just FTPed). Unless one has this fixed version, the
system doesn't run very well with kernel 2.2.12, since the ptys in
/dev have the wrong major.

So the bottom line is: one needs a newer makedev. The current stable
one works, for example. Perhaps there are similar problems for other
packages that made it onto older slink CDs, too, so it might be a good
idea to add the FTP site to /etc/apt/sources.list and do an `apt-get
update; apt-get upgrade' before trying the 2.2.x kernels. This doesn't
help people without Internet access, though.

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