dev-3.12-1

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 11:49:02AM -0400, Williams Jr, Ernest L. wrote:
> 
> Running Transaction
> Cannot install the dev package: mounted devfs detected.
                                          ^^^^
        This is clearly bogus.  Something mounted on /dev
        was detected but this is not devfs.  Minor but somewhat
        annoying.  Bug #130526 in bugzilla and still there.

> error: %pre(dev-3.12-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping dev-3.12-1
> Complete!
> ================================================================
> 
> 
> 
> Any way around this?

Sure.  Boot with initrd which _does not_ include support for udev,
update 'dev' package, reboot with your "regular" initrd, be happy.
Other possibility - add 'exclude=dev' to yours yum config file
and forget about it.  Also  put 'dev' on a list of ignored
packages for up2date.

Running updates with a file system of tmpfs type mounted on /dev
does not make any sense as after a reboot all changes, with an
exception of modifications to rpm data bases, will vanish but you
can obviously force the issue by using an '--noscripts' option to
rpm.

   Michal