Re: postinstall anomaly

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

Yeah, the patch looks good.  If noone else gets to it during the day, 
I'll commit it this evening.

On Thu, 21 May 2009, Nicolas Joly wrote:

> 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.

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