dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David T Hollis) writes: > With udev now handling /dev and repopulating upon reboot, it seems that > the dev and MAKEDEV packages are no longer relevant. ACK. A problem with MAKEDEV is, that it places the MAKEDEV *binary* into /dev. This is a really bad place for it; devfs under 2.4 removed it and buildsystems which need a special /dev will remove it also. Especially in the latter case, this is very problematic as some packages need it to create %files list. I would suggest to move MAKEDEV into /sbin and to create a symlink into /dev on demand. > [root@dhollis-lnx i2c]# rpm -e dev MAKEDEV > error: Failed dependencies: > dev is needed by (installed) which-2.16-4 > dev is needed by (installed) mod_ssl-2.0.50-4 > dev is needed by (installed) kdelibs-3.3.0-1 > dev is needed by (installed) mkinitrd-4.1.1-1 > dev is needed by (installed) initscripts-7.67-1 > MAKEDEV >= 3.0 is needed by (installed) raidtools-1.00.3-8 There are probably some additional BuildRequires: on MAKEDEV missing in this list. > I'm not terribly concerned about these packages from a space perspective > (especially since all of dev's files get blown away anyway!) but now rpm > --verify dev Adding '%_netsharedpath /dev' into your /etc/rpm/macros file and to reinstall the dev package would be a workaround. Enrico
