On Thu, 2022-09-08 at 12:29 +0100, Peter Duffy wrote: > On Thu, 2022-09-08 at 21:21 +1000, Ralph Ronnquist wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 11:46:50AM +0100, Peter Duffy wrote: > > > I assume that at some point, the installation iso images are > > > going > > > to > > > be rebuilt to include the new devuan-keyring package? Until this > > > is > > > done, a devuan install can only be completed by using the > > > wget/chroot/dpkg kludge. > > > > > > Given LP's move to M$, there's probably more interest than usual > > > in > > > devuan and other non-systemd distros at the moment - so maybe > > > this > > > needs doing quite urgently. > > > > > > I did manage to rebuild the chimaera netinstall image with the > > > new > > > devuan-keyring package yesterday (I needed to install several > > > chimaera > > > VMs, and it was an interesting challenge). The new image appears > > > to > > > work (install on a virtualbox VM completed without a problem, and > > > the > > > VM booted fine). If it would be helpful, I'm happy to give > > > details > > > of > > > how I did it - but I'm conscious that although it seems to work, > > > my > > > new > > > image is probably slightly different from the original, and I > > > don't > > > want to muddy any waters. The best by far would be to have new > > > images > > > available, built using the standard process. On the other hand, > > > it > > > might be good for the process of generating debian/devuan > > > installation > > > images to be more widely known (there doesn't seem to be a lot of > > > information on the web about it, and what there is seems mostly > > > to > > > be > > > out-of-date and/or broken). > > > > To build a chimaera netinstall, the following command sequence > > might > > work: > > > > $ git clone https://git.devuan.org/devuan/installer-iso.git > > $ cd installer-iso > > $ TRIAL=yes ./build-sudo chimaera netinstall 4.2.meown > > > > You obviusly need sudo, or you may run it as root. > > > > That scripting will firstly debootstrap a chimaera installer > > building > > hosting filesystem, then chroot into that for the actual iso > > building. > > The resulting ISO ends up at chimaera.$ARCH.fs/installer-iso/ with > > the > > name of netinstall-$ARCH.iso. > > > > I'm doing like that so it must work the same for everyone ;) > > > > Ralph. > > Thanks for that - I was hoping that the tools to do this were > generally > available. I'll give it a try. > That worked fine - the image built successfully, and an install from it on a virtualbox VM was also successful.
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