Bugzilla Bug 101159

In version 2.15 of cowloop, cowmerge has been added to the package and the
make/install part of the ebuild weren't added that source file to compile, I
added the patch for this bug at the end of the bug report.

Another problem I was wondering, is there a way to automatically add rules to
udev for that package as when you use udev it creates on modprobe /dev/cowctl
but the program search for /dev/cow/ctl when used and will not work until it is
created there, also when it works it will create a cowdev /dev/cowloop0 when the
program says it has created /dev/cow/[0-16] depending on the number of cowloops,
I added those lines to /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules :

# cow loop
KERNEL=="cowctl"        NAME="cow/ctl"
KERNEL=="cowloop[0-9]"  NAME="cow/%n"

those lines worked perfectly and fixed it.

--- portage/sys-fs/cowloop/cowloop-2.15.ebuild	2005-06-26 05:38:58.000000000 -0400
+++ portage-cowloop/sys-fs/cowloop/cowloop-2.15.ebuild	2005-08-02
23:55:56.000000000 -0400
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ pkg_setup() {
 
 src_compile() {
 	linux-mod_src_compile
-	CC="$(tc-getCC) ${CFLAGS}" emake cowdev cowrepair cowsync cowlist || die "make
failed"
+	CC="$(tc-getCC) ${CFLAGS}" emake cowdev cowrepair cowsync cowlist cowmerge ||
die "make failed"
 }
 
 src_install() {
 	linux-mod_src_install
-	dosbin cowdev cowrepair cowsync cowlist
+	dosbin cowdev cowrepair cowsync cowlist cowmerge
 	doman man/*
 }

Created an attachment (id=64964) [details]
Just though it could be an idea to have a file instead of text.

(From update of attachment 64964 [details])
Just though it could be an idea to have a file instead of text.

cowloop-2.15-r1 fixes cowmerge  
  
Greg - are the udev additions feasible? 

You don't need to add those udev entries to the main udev rules file, just drop
them into the /etc/udev/rules.d/ directory.  With a name something like
"60-cowloop.rules" so they get run after the other rules.

done - thanks greg. 

Ah ok! I tried that but didn't add the .rules suffix and it didn't work but
with
.rules it works perfectly. Thanks.