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  • From: Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Thomas Orgis (6960e5e51b6035894de686ce270467a0c38445fb)
  • Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:17:11 -0600

On Sep 05, Arwed von Merkatz [v.merkatz AT gmx.net] wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:14:08AM +0200, Thomas Orgis wrote:
> > Am Mon, 4 Sep 2006 20:14:23 +0200
> > schrieb Jaka Kranjc <lynx AT mages.ath.cx>:
> >
> > > > + ?config_query ?CREATE_DEV_TREE ?"check for / create static /dev
> > > > tree" y
> > > Shouldn't this query default to n, as most users do want udev?
> >
> > I tried not to change the logic of the spell: Formerly, it was
> >
> > if [ "$DEVICES" != "devfs" ]; then
> > check_static_dev
> > fi &&
> >
> > So both udev and static mode triggered the check_static_dev function,
> > while this function then asked for creation of the static tree,
> > defaulting to y.
> > What I did was to move that question out of the function and out of
> > INSTALL (!!) into the configure stage, but not changing default behaviour.
> > I must admit that I feel safer when there are some device nodes as
> > fallback even when using udev. It doesn't hurt, normally, but it
> > shouldn't be necessary.
> >
> > To change this default behaviour, that is a question that perhaps needs a
> > bit of discussion. When ppl agree, I'm not opposing.
>
> It defaults to yes because there were some install isos that installed a
> completely empty /dev directory and used devfs. You can't boot an udev
> system with such a /dev, so that check was added.

This is an ancient thread, but I was doing an install with udev tonight to
test some init.d things and this query confused the heck out of me, so I
went looking. If this is needed even for udev it should explicitly say so.
I couldn't figure out why it even asked this when I was saying I wanted
udev.

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  • Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Thomas Orgis (6960e5e51b6035894de686ce270467a0c38445fb), Jeremy Blosser, 01/24/2007

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