I have been further testing ways of migrating buster to beowulf. With a install of xfce4 and lightdm, the cleanest way I can come up with is:
# Migrate from Debian buster to Devuan beowulf # Install devuan-keyring wget http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/d/devuan-keyring/devuan-keyring_2017.10.03_all.deb dpkg -i devuan-keyring_2017.10.03_all.deb # Change APT sources cat > /etc/apt/sources.list <<EOF deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged beowulf main deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security main EOF apt update # If you have libpam-systemd installed this is an optional and very hackish fix # for Debian #935304 which is now closed with wontfix. # # Don't do this if you are at all unsure. # # 1) Ensure you create a backup! # 2) Open /var/lib/dpkg/status with an editor # 3) Find libpam-systemd Depends. The line looks like # Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), systemd (= 241-7~deb10u1), libpam-runtime (>= 1.0.1-6), dbus, systemd-sysv # 4) Remove ', systemd-sysv from the end of the line, leaving the rest of the line intact # 5) Save file cp /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.save editor /var/lib/dpkg/status # Install new init and dbus. # Ensure we will have dbus-x11 to provide dbus-session-bus after systemd is gone. # Remove libnss-systemd to avoid delays on nss lookups after reboot. apt install --purge sysvinit-core dbus dbus-x11 libnss-systemd- reboot # If you have policykit-1 installed, update it. # This will also purge systemd* and install libpam-elogind apt install --purge policykit-1 # The rest of the migration (base-files, eudev, etc) # This will also purge sytemd* if not already done. apt --purge full-upgrade # Optionally, if you didn't edit /var/lib/dpkg/status above # Reinstall whatever desktop and display manager was removed # apt install xfce4 lightdm # Change ens3 to eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces sed s/ens3/eth0/ -i /etc/network/interfaces reboot # Remove cruft apt autoremove --purge Done! The transitional systemd-sysv package I talked about a few days ago to smooth over #935304 isn't going to work as I had forgotten that sysvinit-core conflicts with systemd-sysv. The hack to work around #935304 by editing /var/lib/dpkg/status is not pretty at all. If you don't want it you will have to accept removal of some GUI components with libpam-systemd and then reinstall them after libpam-elogind is in place. I hope the instructions are reasonably clear. Do give feedback. Thanks Mark _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
