[Nix-dev] Re: Making a device node

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Lluís Batlle wrote:

> 2010/3/4 Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Lluís Batlle <viriketo at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Any idea on how to get device nodes into tar or cpio archives from a nix build?
>> For cpio, perhaps you could pass a tweaked file list to “cpio -ov”?
>> (info "(cpio) Tutorial")
> I could read /dev only if not building in a chroot, and it may not be
> trivial to keep proper paths in the archive, with files from TMPDIR
> and /dev.
> 
> By now, the only solution I now goes through the special cpio archiver
> that comes with linux, which may be a bit annoying to build.

If all else fails, you could use vmTools.runInLinuxVM, which performs the given
derivation in a VM as root ;-)

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