On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 22:51:24 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > I'd like to find how to get the packages firmware-b43-installer and > b43-fwcutter in devuan beta. > > I've searched for info in the mailing lists and I've looked at the main > Devuan site and the FAQ. But neither turned up relevant info[1]. The > packages should be available in Debian jessie in the contrib repository
And they are. > As a guess, I've tried adding the repositories like this: > > deb http://fi.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-security main contrib No need to add the security repo AFAIK. This line should be suffice: deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie main contrib > But the packages don't seem to be there, at least not for amd64. Strange. On my amd64 system they're listed for all 3 suites (Jessie, Ascii, Ceres). > Is there a way to safely pull packages from Debian jessie? Or are these > particular packages proscribed for any particular reasons? No need to. Everything not in Devuan is pulled transparently from Debian repositories, i.e. currently ~ 99.9% of all packages. See also: https://talk.devuan.org/t/amprolla-package-repository-layering-proxy/298 HTH, Regards Urban _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
