Anno domini 2021 Thu, 19 Aug 13:18:16 +0200 Antony Stone scripsit: > Hi. > > This may seem like a strange question, but has anyone tried "migrating" a > machine from Devuan to Debian (ie: not the normal way round we discuss it > here)? > > I have a need to play with FreeSwitch, and the package installer tells me: > > freeswitch-systemd : Depends: systemd which is a virtual package and is not > provided by any available package
Install "equivs" and build a dummy package. Nik > > I have a *very* fast and convenient method of creating Devuan VMs to play > with, whereas creating a Debian VM would involve going through the entire > standard Debian installer process (time difference: ~1 minute vs. ~1 hour). > > So, is it worth my while trying: > > - create a Beowulf VM > - add either Buster or (since it became officially stable last weekend) > Bullseye to sources.list > - doing an upgrade and/or a dist-upgrade > > Anyone tried it? Success? Failure? You must be mad? > > My intention is simply to get FreeSwitch installed, find out how much it > really > *does* depend on systemd, and see how feasible it is to take those bits out > or > replace the init scripts etc, and then run it on Devuan. > > Opinions and experiences most welcome :) > > > Antony. > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
