Subject: Re: dev_t changes & partitions
To: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/16/1998 12:05:41
On 16 Jan 1998 09:03:24 -0800 
 Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com> wrote:

 > mycroft@MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum) writes:
 > > It's even what happens by *default* when I upgrade -- because /etc and
 > > /dev/MAKEDEV are not automatically changed.
 > 
 > This is a very good question.  
 > 
 > Why isn't MAKEDEV updated by an "make build"?  I can see why
 > MAKEDEV.local wouldn't be, but MAKEDEV???

It really should be... the way "make install" deals w/ the etc source
directory is somewhat broken, IMO.

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