Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (295 mails)

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:47:06AM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> > > 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.

OK, I removed the package and rebooted the system after that (I needed
to update the kernel anyway). Now all is fine.

Thanks!
           Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
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