On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 at 11:42:04 +0100
Jaromil <jaro...@dyne.org> wrote:

> dear DNG readers,
> 
> for those who have Devuan ASCII running, we have a package of eudev in
> experimental to test and feedback is very welcome, since this is the
> candidate package to substitute udev. eudev is maintained upstream by
> talented people at Gentoo who definitely deserve our praise.
> 
> Beware this package DOES NOT WORK ON Jessie.
> 
> For your convenience an ASCII based qcow2 image and vagrant box is
> publicly available via the DECODE project (Devuan derivative)
> https://files.dyne.org/decode/OS/
> 
> So when you are running ASCII already then all you have to do is add the
> experimental repository to your apt sources.list with this line
> 
> deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/devuan experimental   main
> 
> then apt update and 
> 
>   apt-get -t experimental install eudev
> 
> currently, the full version of the package is 3.2.2-devuan2.7
> 
> those who were already testing our eudev package need to specify the
> full version, since we are switching to correct semantic versioning
> and dropping the "220" prefix inherited by bad versioning practices in
> udev:
> 
>   apt-get -t experimental install eudev=3.2.2-devuan2.7
> 
> According to our tests it installs and it boots!

  Yep, it does the same over here!

[...]

> Among long term considerations on the advantages this move brings us,
> the immediate catch is that by installing eudev you will not see
> anymore the string "systemd" appear in your process list.

  Isn't that fantastically cool?  :-)

[...]

> Many thanks to all the Devuan team for the work being done towards
> ASCII and in particular to Parazyd and Svante Signell for maintaining
> the package and giving it the love it deserves.

  My kudos to the team!


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