On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 15:36 +0200, dragoran wrote: > > > >In looking into the dev requirement for which (which struck me as quite > >odd), I found this bug report: > >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99275 . The which > >package needs dev so that the postinstall scripts calling install-info > >can use "> /dev/null". There were ordering problems with 'which' being > >installed before 'dev' since 'which' doesn't have much in the way of > >requirements. I suppose it may be better to have a requirement > >on /dev/null, though currently only 'dev' provides it. If there is a > >future without 'dev' (optional or mandatory), that sort of scenario will > >need to be addressed. > > > > > > > > > does /dev/null exists when using udev? > > On a normally running system - yes. udev does not create /dev/null upon RPM install/upgrade and there are no postinstall scripts, only a preun to remove the service. -- David T Hollis <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
