[Buildroot] /dev nodes files

[Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>]

On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 08:53:46PM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>  Daniel> After each build, the ixnodes in project_build_arm/uclibc/root/dev are
>  Daniel> regular files rather than inodes, which prevents users from exporting
>  Daniel> that directory directly as NFS root. Most people run custom scripts to
>  Daniel> fix that, but I wonder whether there is any change to get that fixed in
>  Daniel> BR2 directly.
> 
> Ehh, that's on purpose (E.G. so you don't need root permissions to
> build). Just select the tarball target and extract it on your nfs
> server.
> 
>  Daniel> Any oppinion about such an approach?
> 
> What would this buy us that the tarball target doesn't give?

Ok, understood. Thanks :)

Daniel