On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 10:44 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 09:31 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Trying to create a char-device as ordinary user, results into this: > > # mknod /var/tmp/bla-1.0.0/etc/udev/devices/bla01 c 212 0 > > mknod: `/var/tmp/bla-1.0.0/etc/udev/devices/bla01': Operation not permitted > > This issue prevents one from being able to build rpms containing special > > devices as ordinary users. > > then the rpm in question is buggy. Quite likely, I am at trying to get the rpm spec shipped with a proprietary device driver working. > First of all, RPM has a directive to do this properly (%device iirc), Thanks, that's news to me. I will try to investigate (I recall there is a %dev, but I haven't used it, yet). > Second of all, it's quite suspect that you want to package a device node > in an rpm since most of them are dynamic numbers nowadays... are you > sure your device is registered with LANANA ? The example above used arbitrarily chosen numbers. I don't know if the actual devices-numbers have been registered with LANANA. As this is a closed source driver, I would not bet. Ralf
