From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 18 02:25:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 043B016A4CF for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:25:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8580543D39 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:25:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j2I2PSwi026748; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:25:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:25:28 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Brooks Davis Message-ID: <20050318022528.GC18079@dan.emsphone.com> References: <423A15F8.8010200@uci.edu> <20050317234829.GA2398@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050317234829.GA2398@odin.ac.hmc.edu> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org cc: John Prather Subject: Re: ports/emulators/linux_base-8 install problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:25:30 -0000 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