Bug 43404 – devfs broken-ness in busybox .60.5 series - add devfs use variable

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description David Bryson (RETIRED) 2004-03-01 12:01:05 UTC]

there is some nasty devfs wrongness in the current busybox.  If one compiles busybox with devfs support and you don't enable devfs at boottime you run into issues.
the current manifestation of this is the inability to allocate loop devices.  As a soltion I added a use variable for devfs in the busybox ebuild.  Will attach a patch in the moment.

I have not tested 1.0-pre series, but I suspect it would be advantagous to put a similar use variable in those ebuilds.

[Comment 1 David Bryson (RETIRED) 2004-03-01 12:05:16 UTC]

Created attachment 26677 [details, diff]
enables a devfs use variable

[Comment 2 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2004-03-05 02:11:34 UTC]

From the metadata base-system looks like its the maintainer of this package.

[Comment 3 solar (RETIRED) 2004-03-13 04:00:19 UTC]

Patch looks sane to me. You can merge it if you want dan.

[Comment 4 solar (RETIRED) 2004-03-13 04:02:38 UTC]

sed -e "s:#define.*BB_FEATURE_DEVFS://#define BB_FEATURE_DEVFS:g" \
+			< ${S}/Config.h > ${S}/Config.h.new && 
+			mv ${S}/Config.h{.new,}

might want to change this to.
sed -i -e "s:#define.*BB_FEATURE_DEVFS://#define BB_FEATURE_DEVFS:g" Config.h

[Comment 5 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2004-03-16 18:59:56 UTC]

Merged at solar's request. Thanks David