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Bug 373763

Summary: sys-apps/busybox continues to uses devfs names (as of 1.18.4)
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: gfl3162+gbugzilla
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description gfl3162+gbugzilla 2011-07-02 01:34:28 UTC
In busybox-1.18.4, where devfs features were said in Changelog to be removed, CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVFS is still enabled in the default configuration (without the savedconfig USE flag).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge busybox with USE=-savedconfig (default).
2. dd if=/dev/zero of=image bs=1M count=32
3. mkfs.ext2 -F image
4. mkdir mountpoint
5. mount -o loop image mountpoint
Actual Results:  
mount: can't setup loop device: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  
(no output)
Comment 1 gfl3162+gbugzilla 2011-07-02 01:36:06 UTC
Original bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371059
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2011-07-03 16:39:14 UTC
dont do this

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 371059 ***