no need to create /dev/zero and the like, udev already did it

quite a lot more remain as we either lack prope udev rules or rely
on older style entries or are needed in drakx-in-chroot mode

6 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/perl-install/any.pm b/perl-install/any.pm
index 787706332..c95ab95fc 100644
--- a/perl-install/any.pm
+++ b/perl-install/any.pm
@@ -1399,7 +1399,6 @@ You can use userdrake to add a user to this group.")
 sub monitor_full_edid() {
     return if $::noauto;
 
-    devices::make('zero');
     my ($vbe, $edid);
     {
         # prevent warnings in install's logs:
diff --git a/perl-install/authentication.pm b/perl-install/authentication.pm
index 02a88737c..9fc00a78e 100644
--- a/perl-install/authentication.pm
+++ b/perl-install/authentication.pm
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ sub enable_shadow() {
 sub salt {
     my ($nb) = @_;
     require devices;
-    open(my $F, devices::make("urandom")) or die "missing urandom";
+    open(my $F, "/dev/urandom") or die "missing urandom";
     my $s; read $F, $s, $nb;
     $s = pack("b8" x $nb, unpack "b6" x $nb, $s);
     $s =~ tr|\0-\x3f|0-9a-zA-Z./|;
diff --git a/perl-install/fs/mount.pm b/perl-install/fs/mount.pm
index 4365c0caa..0bff5f06c 100644
--- a/perl-install/fs/mount.pm
+++ b/perl-install/fs/mount.pm
@@ -160,8 +160,6 @@ sub part {
 		set_loop($part);
 		$options = join(',', grep { !/^(encryption=|encrypted$|loop$)/ } split(',', $options)); #- we take care of this, don't let it mount see it
 	    } elsif (isLoopback($part)) {
-		#- mount will take care, but we must help it
-		devices::make("loop$_") foreach 0 .. 7;
 		$options = join(',', uniq('loop', split(',', $options))); #- ensure the loop options is used
 	    } elsif ($part->{options} =~ /encrypted/) {
 		log::l("skip mounting $part->{device} since we do not have the encrypt_key");
diff --git a/perl-install/install/NEWS b/perl-install/install/NEWS
index 43a16efb8..0fd3e5ed2 100644
--- a/perl-install/install/NEWS
+++ b/perl-install/install/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+- do not create /dev/ entries created by udev
 - kill last remanents of kernel-2.4.x support
 - package group selection:
   o remember minimal install values when clicking "previous"
diff --git a/perl-install/install/commands.pm b/perl-install/install/commands.pm
index 154a9cfb1..f89002a27 100644
--- a/perl-install/install/commands.pm
+++ b/perl-install/install/commands.pm
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ sub hexdump {
 sub more {
     @ARGV = @_;
     require devices;
-    my $tty = devices::make('tty');
+    my $tty = '/dev/tty';
     my $n = 0; 
     open(my $IN, $tty) or die "cannot open $tty\n";
     local $_;
diff --git a/perl-install/install/install2.pm b/perl-install/install/install2.pm
index 05d3c8a14..065c88515 100644
--- a/perl-install/install/install2.pm
+++ b/perl-install/install/install2.pm
@@ -347,8 +347,7 @@ sub pre_init_brltty() {
 
 sub init_brltty() {
     symlink "/tmp/stage2/$_", $_ foreach "/etc/brltty";
-    devices::make($_) foreach $o->{brltty}{device} ? $o->{brltty}{device} : qw(ttyS0 ttyS1);
-    devices::make("vcsa");
+    devices::make($_) foreach $o->{brltty}{device};
     run_program::run("brltty");
 }