ports/emulators/linux_base-8 install problem

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:42:48PM -0800, John Prather wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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.

-- Brooks

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