From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: MikeW Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:03:16 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Buildroot] Fakeroot issues References: <8706461.post@talk.nabble.com> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Daniel Laird writes: > > > Hi I am trying to use buildroot to generate me a CPIO archive which is then > included in my kernel image as a initramfs. > > The problem I am having is that is looks like all has worked, no errors etc. > However the devices that are created by makedev are not being created as > devices but just as files. > (build_mipsel/root/dev/....) > > I am presuming this is dues to an issue with fakeroot. As I can run makedev > as root user with same parameters and it all works fine. > > It there any easy way to debug what is going on with fakeroot as I cant get > this to work at the moment. > > I am using Redhat EL4 (Unfortunate Work Choice) in case that might trigger > anything. > > Cheers > Dan > Dan, Started to look at restoring devices before Xmas ... is this http://www.openembedded.org/user-manual&dpage=fakeroot any use ? There's a bit about device nodes created by fakeroot not being 'real' ... (or wait for a reply from someone who's actually *done* this !) Cheers, MikeW