From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Aug 19 12:26:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from dt010nb9.san.rr.com (dt010nb9.san.rr.com [204.210.12.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E06BC14E5C for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:26:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt010nb9.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA57368; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:26:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:26:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt010nb9.san.rr.com To: joe@pavilion.net Cc: FreeBSD-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/13240: Mergemaster doesn't create /dev/ttyvXX's. In-Reply-To: <19990818233212.02D5ABB54@flux.tao.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Before I forget, thanks to Chris for closing this PR. On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 joe@pavilion.net wrote: > > >Number: 13240 > >Category: conf > >Synopsis: Mergemaster doesn't create /dev/ttyvXX's. > >Description: > > In July des added more vtys to /etc/ttys as default. > >Fix: > > Shouldn't mergemaster install the default device nodes > in /dev, to update/add any changes? (i.e. sh MAKEDEV all). No, it shouldn't. :) Its only job is to show you the differences between your installation and the defaults, and to allow you to blend them together according to your preferences. Mergemaster would have shown you the diff's to /etc/ttys, then it's up to you to take action on rebuilding your devices as necessary. One of the fundamental design goals for mm is to be VERY conservative as to what it does and does not do. Spontaneously remaking a system's devices at the wrong time would be a Bad Thing (TM). Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message