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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Subject: Re: bin/7300: 'make release' process doesn't copy some device nodes to the 'bin' distribution 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/7300; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To: woods@zeus.leitch.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/7300: 'make release' process doesn't copy some device nodes to the 'bin' distribution 
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 18:32:35 +0200

 >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.
 
 Right and right.
 
 It was deliberate designed this way.
 
 tar(1) is the canonical format and running /dev/MAKEDEV fixes the
 only problem and is necessary anyway to cater for disk configurations.
 
 --
 Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
 phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
 "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal

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