Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:25:28 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: John Prather <jprather@uci.edu> Subject: Re: ports/emulators/linux_base-8 install problem Message-ID: <20050318022528.GC18079@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20050317234829.GA2398@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <423A15F8.8010200@uci.edu> <20050317234829.GA2398@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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In the last episode (Mar 17), Brooks Davis said: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:42:48PM -0800, John Prather wrote: > > Any reason linux_base-8 insists upon successfully using mknod in > > the installation in directories in the WRKDIRPREFIX, which may or > > may not be mounted with nodev option, and in my case resides within > > a jail, where mknod reports: > > > > mknod: > > /usr/local/ports/work/usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/work/linux_base-8-8.0/dev/null: Operation not permitted > > > > Perhaps, since 5.x has been out for a while, some way of getting > > linux_base to use devfs instead of mknod might be nice? I am told > > 6.x won't allow mknod at all, regardless of jail presence. > > Yah, this needs to go away. In 6.x you can make device nodes with > mknod, they just aren't useful on FreeBSD >=6 (you can export them to > other systems or stick them in tarballs, etc.) > > I suspect we're actually going to need a lindevfs eventually. I don't even have a /compat/linux/dev directory, and everything seems to work just fine. The Makefile comment above the line that creates /dev/null mentions something about a chroot, but I see no chroot anywhere. I say just remove that whole block from the Makefile. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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