Comment 13 for bug 633646

(In reply to comment #8)
> Maybe rpm and yum are working correctly but post install scripts are causing
> these files to get created as files.

In the chroot environment during the install, the "filesystem" package creates /dev, but /dev/null does not exist, so the first script that opens /dev/null could end up creating it as a regular file.

> Wait it is created as a file rather then a device.

They both are regular files:

[stephent@walnut fake_root]$ cat dev/stderr
The default plymouth plugin () doesn't exist
[stephent@walnut fake_root]$