Re: postinstall anomaly

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 05:55:23AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> With sources updated as of last night, postinstall seems to be confused 
> about whether or not makedev is successful.
> 
> First, it reports
> 
>       makedev check:
>               /tmp/_postinstall.22840.0/MAKEDEV != ///dev/MAKEDEV
> 
> But later on, it claims that makedev was successful:
> 
>       postinstall checks passed: bluetooth ddbonpanic defaults dhcpcd 
>       envsys gid hosts iscsi makedev motd named pam periodic pf postfix 
>       ssh wscons x11 uid varrwho
>       postinstall checks failed: mtree rc obsolete
> 
> And, when asked to fix makedev, it does so:
> 
>       {104} /build/netbsd-local/src/usr.sbin/postinstall/postinstall -s 
>       ./src -d / fix makedev mtree rc obsolete
>       Source directory: ./src
>       Target directory: /
>       makedev fix:
>               Copied /tmp/_postinstall.22949.0/MAKEDEV to /dev/MAKEDEV

Yep. I noticed it too ... and posted a patch for review on
tech-toolchain@ ML.

<http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-toolchain/2009/05/19/msg000709.html>

Freel free to commit it if this ok, i'm mostly offline for a few days.

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.