Subject: Re: MI MAKEDEV code
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/25/2003 10:25:19
At 04:05 AM 5/25/2003, Luke Mewburn wrote:
>On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 11:54:35AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> | On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 10:07:07PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> | > Please let me know what you think. It is pretty easy to convert the new
> | > archs to use it, but it might break the script that generates the man
> | > pages.
> |
> | I like the idea.
> |
> | Is mtree(1) available when this script is run? Maybe we could make it
> output
> | an mtree template and pipe that to mtree instead of running
> individual rm/
> | mknod etc. itself?
>
>mtree is in /usr/bin, and we currently use /dev/MAKEDEV for the "mfs /dev "
>hack in /sbin/init. Therefore, this would cause problems on systems
>with a separate /usr.
Use pax -M
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