[Mageia-dev] Packaging errors to fix

[Thomas Backlund]

On 15.3.2011 17:00, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> On 15 March 2011 15:47, Michael Scherer<misc at zarb.org>  wrote:
>>> 1) /dev/null is created by makedev which is required by basesystem-minimal.
>>> 2) anyway, urpmi creates /dev/null if it doesn't exists anyway.
>>> 3) urpmi is used by drakx-installer too.
>>>
>>> Every case should be thus covered.
>>> However he did saw this error.
>>
>> That's likely a ordering issue, related to the loops.
>> makedev is installed in the end, after python.
>
> that shouldn't matter:
>
> urpmi::media::configure() (which is called by both urpmi&  installer) does:
>
>      if ($urpm->{root}&&  ! -c "$urpm->{root}/dev/null") {
>          mkdir "$urpm->{root}/dev";
>          system("/bin/cp", "-a", '/dev/null', "$urpm->{root}/dev");
>      }
>

I think he is using rpm directly, not urpmi...

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Thomas