Cannot rely on /dev being present in %post scripts?

[Till Maas]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:18:16PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> According to bug #517013, %post scripts should not assume that /dev is
> available -- so we can't do anything that requires the existence of 
> /dev/null, /dev/urandom, etc.
> 
> Is this a known and expected packaging rule, or is it a bug in the way
> that the user is attempting to install the packages?

I mentioned it already in the bug report: There are some scriptlet
recommendations that use /dev/null:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets

Regards
Till
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