Package MAKEDEV: Information
Source package: MAKEDEV
Version: 3.3.1-alt20
Build time: Mar 31, 2008, 05:37 PM
Category: System/Kernel and hardware
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License: GPL
Summary: A program used for creating the device files in /dev
Description:
This package contains the MAKEDEV script, which makes it easier to create and maintain the files in the /dev directory. /dev directory files correspond to a particular device supported by Linux (USB, parallel or serial ports, scanners, sound cards, hard/optical/tape drives, etc.) and interface with the drivers in the kernel.
List of RPM packages built from this SRPM:
MAKEDEV (x86_64, i586)
dev (x86_64, i586)
dev-minimal (x86_64, i586)
MAKEDEV (x86_64, i586)
dev (x86_64, i586)
dev-minimal (x86_64, i586)
Maintainer: Michael Shigorin
Last changed
March 31, 2008 Michael Shigorin 3.3.1-alt20
- whoops, unfinished re-re-making of preinstall script (alt19 didn't really test for udev due to wrong src.rpm being uploaded) - forgot re-adding dev package as well - thus rebuilt - don't break package uninstallation either (bug introduced in 3.3.1-alt19)
March 13, 2008 Michael Shigorin 3.3.1-alt19
- split dev package into dev and dev-minimal (#14887) - the following /dev entries were moved from dev to dev-minimal + /dev, /dev/pts, /dev/shm directories + /dev/fd, /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, /dev/stderr symlinks + /dev/log (ghost file) + /dev/null, /dev/full, /dev/zero + /dev/random, /dev/urandom + /dev/console, /dev/tty, /dev/tty0, /dev/ptmx, /dev/fb0 + /dev/hda..hdd, sda..sdh (including partition devices up to 15) + /dev/ttyS0..ttyS3 (see also #11888) - added preun scripts to guard against package removal while udevd is actually running - minor spec cleanup - re-added an Url:
March 10, 2007 Michael Shigorin 3.3.1-alt18
- updated message upon detecting udev ("umount", not "stop")