* On 2016 29 Apr 16:53 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > Let me see if I understand you correctly. the package firmware-iwlwifi > is not open software, and so is not available from the devuan package > archive. So > > a) The sources.list line > deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main non-free contrib > should not have non-free appended because devuan does not support > non-free packages.
I just posted a message to another thread where I have my sources.list set as: deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main contrib non-free and firmware-iwlwifi is not shown to be in the obsolete and locally installed packages section in Aptitude CUI which tells me that it is in the list of available packages. > b) The only way to get firmware-iwlwifi, an essential package I cannot > do without, is to get it as I did from the Debian mirror, but I'm > "on my own" because Devuan does not support it. As I understand it, the 'merged' package repository gets those packages directly from Debian that do not need to be rebuilt for Devuan. > c) The same for task-mail-server, which apparently has some non-free > drivers. Is this why it is absent? I had to install the obvious > applications such as exim4, procmail, mutt, spamassassin, > individually. Try it with the non-free section added and see. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
