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[Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>]

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many of us have moved to devfsd and mounted to /dev with a symlink from
/devices for the bad scripts still using the old sorcerer layout (Am I
getting this down correctly?)

I think some minor tweaks to the install scripts and we wouldn't need
/devices at all, assuming we fixed these:

disk/e2fsprogs/BUILD:  install  -d  /devices
smgl/init.d/scriptdir/mount:  [  !  -d  /devices  ]  ||  mount   -n  -t  
devfs devfs /devices
smgl/init.d/scriptdir/mount.sh:  [  !  -d  /devices  ]  ||  mount   -n  -t  
devfs devfs /devices
audio/dcd/BUILD:  sedit  "s/\/dev\/cdroms\/cdrom0/\/devices\/cdroms\/cdrom0/" 
Makefile
audio/dcd/HISTORY:              Spell will now look for CD in 
/devices/cdrom/cdrom0
audio/alsa-driver-virmidi/BUILD:  ln  -sf  /devices/snd  /dev/snd
audio/alsa-driver/BUILD:  ln  -sf  /devices/snd  /dev/snd
audio/alsa-driver/BUILD:  chown root.audio /devices/snd/*
audio/alsa-driver/BUILD:  chmod 666 /devices/snd/*
audio/alsa-driver/HISTORY:              of sound devices in /devices when the 
are created.
graphics/xsane/POST_INSTALL:/dev/scanner|sg0|sga or /devices/usb/scanner0, 
note: how SMGL devfs is set up
graphics/sane-backends/POST_INSTALL:/dev/scanner|sg0|sga or 
/devices/usb/scanner0, note: how SMGL devfs is set up
utils/gpm/mousedev:/devices/misc/psaux
utils/gpm/mousedev:/devices/tts/0
utils/gpm/mousedev:/devices/tts/1
utils/gpm/mousedev:/devices/usb/mouse
utils/gpm/mousedev:/devices/mouse
utils/kbd/init.d/log2cons.sh:LOGCONSOLE=/devices/vc/10
utils/lcdproc/init.d/LCDd:#  /devices/cua/0, /devices/cua/1, /dev/lcd
utils/lcdproc/init.d/LCDd:LCD_DEVICE=/devices/cua/1
utils/lcdproc/init.d/lcdproc.sh:#  /devices/cua/0, /devices/cua/1, /dev/lcd
utils/lcdproc/init.d/lcdproc.sh:LCD_DEVICE=/devices/cua/1
utils/Linux-PAM/securetty:/devices/vc/1
utils/Linux-PAM/securetty:/devices/vc/2
utils/Linux-PAM/securetty:/devices/vc/3
utils/Linux-PAM/securetty:/devices/vc/4
utils/Linux-PAM/securetty:/devices/vc/5
utils/Linux-PAM/securetty:/devices/vc/6
utils/sysvinit/POST_INSTALL:mkdir  -p  /devices
utils/sysvinit/inittab:vc1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty /devices/vc/1 9600
utils/sysvinit/inittab:vc2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty /devices/vc/2 9600
utils/sysvinit/inittab:vc3:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty /devices/vc/3 9600
utils/sysvinit/inittab:vc4:1234:respawn:/sbin/agetty /devices/vc/4 9600
utils/sysvinit/inittab:vc5:1234:respawn:/sbin/agetty /devices/vc/5 9600
utils/sysvinit/inittab:vc6:1234:respawn:/sbin/agetty /devices/vc/6 9600

sorcery itself is clean of all bad /devices references.

we should have a default/standard devfsd configuration, too.

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Eric Sandall wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was just talking to a friend whom would like to start using SMGL
> (currently using Gentoo, but said that he is getting frustrated) and he
> asked me why we have /dev and /devices, so I explained to him that way
> back when we were all Sorcerer, /dev was for applications that still
> required the old device system and /devices was for the new devfs system,
> without breaking the other.  He then mentioned that this method is not
> needed, as `devfsd` will create the old /dev links as appropriate (i.e.
> /dev/hda1 -> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1) and that we don't
> need separate directories.
>
> What shall we do?  Keep it the same, or move on to using the "new way" and
> remove /devices and /dev, then use `devfsd` to create a devfs system in
> /dev with the appropriate old system links?  I also have heard that
> FreeBSD 5.1 now supports only devfs (no old dev links at all).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -sandalle
>
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