Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (295 mails)

[Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>]

Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 05:05:52PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> > Joerg Mayer wrote:
> > > devs openSUSE 10.2 (i586)  <--- what happended to this package?
> > Udev takes care of creating the device nodes, devs.rpm was finally
> > dropped after 10.3. Some other rpm should probably obsolete it
>
> So what will happen if I "rpm -e devs"? Will my system still work?

Hmm, good question. I'm afraid that rpm -e devs will remove the device
nodes from /dev (even though the ones really owned by devs.rpm are
hidden by the tmpfs mount on /dev). Try it and report a bug if you run
into trouble ;-). You can tar up /dev before to avoid a reboot if
something goes wrong.

Michal
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