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Date:      Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:55:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      woods@zeus.leitch.com
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   bin/7300: 'make release' process doesn't copy some device nodes to the 'bin' distribution
Message-ID:  <199807161555.LAA13294@brain.zeus.leitch.com>

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>Number:         7300
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       'make release' process doesn't copy some device nodes to the 'bin' distribution
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 16 09:00:01 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Greg A. Woods
>Organization:
Planix, Inc.; Toronto, Ontario; Canada
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386 (cvsup'ed 980709)
>Environment:

FreeBSD brain.zeus.leitch.com 2.2.6-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE #0: Tue Jul 14 15:38:10 EDT 1998     woods@brain.zeus.leitch.com:/var/work.d/Leitch-BSD-2.2/sys/compile/BRAIN  i386

>Description:

During the "make release" process several error messages are printed
regarding the inability of 'tar' to copy some device nodes when creating
the 'bin' distribution.

I don't think this is critical since /dev/MAKEDEV should be run on the
target system anyway and that'll replace/repair any of the
missing/broken nodes.

>How-To-Repeat:

Run "make release ..." in /usr/src/release

Observe the following output:

	rolling bin/bin tarball
	tar: dev/wd0s3: minor number too large; not dumped
	tar: dev/rwd0s3: minor number too large; not dumped

>Fix:
	
Don't use tar to copy filesystems!!!!!!!  I don't think tar can even be
fixed to copy such devices, not without introducing the possibility of
backward incompatability.

(dump | restore) should work just fine.  Pax may work OK too.
>Audit-Trail:
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