On 02/05/15 09:05, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> I downloaded debootstrap's source from:
> https://git.devuan.org/packages-base/debootstrap and built a .deb
> package on Debian Testing. Then, I used the freshly installed
> debootstrap to install Devuan as follows:
>
> # debootstrap --arch amd64 jessie /mnt/sda8 http://packages.devuan.org/devuan
> W: Cannot check Release signature; keyring file not available
> /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-keyring.gpg
> I: Retrieving Release
> I: Validating Packages
> I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
> I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
> I: Checking component main on http://packages.devuan.org/devuan...
> E: Couldn't find these debs: sysvinit-core
>
> Any hints as to what I should do, are most welcome.
>
> Thanks.

Hello Edward,

I am actually also quite itchy to try Devuan. But I don't think the
minimal packages for debootstrap are all available in Devuan
repositories at the moment. For instance, Devuan jessie repository that
you use, only contains the packages listed below when I checked it a few
minutes ago.

I have a plan to try to mix Debian and Devuan repositories at one point
using Multistrap (https://wiki.debian.org/Multistrap), when I am
confidence enough that Devuan repository contains necessary packages
without dependencies to any systemd components. I don't think it makes
sense to do that now, as the only option that I see at the moment is to
mix Devuan jessie and Debian wheezy. So it is better for me to just stay
on Debian wheezy.

Cheers,

Anto
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root@hp8530w:~# apt-get update
Hit http://packages.devuan.org jessie Release.gpg
Hit http://packages.devuan.org jessie Release
Hit http://packages.devuan.org jessie/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://packages.devuan.org jessie/non-free amd64 Packages
Hit http://packages.devuan.org jessie/contrib amd64 Packages
Ign http://packages.devuan.org jessie/contrib Translation-en_GB
Ign http://packages.devuan.org jessie/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://packages.devuan.org jessie/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://packages.devuan.org jessie/main Translation-en
Ign http://packages.devuan.org jessie/non-free Translation-en_GB
Ign http://packages.devuan.org jessie/non-free Translation-en
Reading package lists... Done
root@hp8530w:~#
root@hp8530w:~# apt-cache dumpavail | grep "Package:" | sort
Package: bsdutils
Package: cgmanager
Package: cgmanager-tests
Package: colord
Package: colord-data
Package: cowbuilder
Package: cowdancer
Package: dbus
Package: dbus-1-dbg
Package: dbus-1-doc
Package: dbus-x11
Package: debootstrap
Package: devuan-baseconf
Package: devuan-keyring
Package: gir1.2-colord-1.0
Package: gir1.2-colorhug-1.0
Package: gir1.2-udisks-2.0
Package: jenkins-debian-glue
Package: jenkins-debian-glue-buildenv
Package: jenkins-debian-glue-buildenv-git
Package: jenkins-debian-glue-buildenv-lintian
Package: jenkins-debian-glue-buildenv-piuparts
Package: jenkins-debian-glue-buildenv-slave
Package: jenkins-debian-glue-buildenv-svn
Package: jenkins-debian-glue-buildenv-taptools
Package: libblkid1
Package: libblkid-dev
Package: libcgmanager0
Package: libcgmanager-dev
Package: libcolord2
Package: libcolord-dev
Package: libcolorhug2
Package: libcolorhug-dev
Package: libdbus-1-3
Package: libdbus-1-dev
Package: libmount1
Package: libmount-dev
Package: libpcsclite1
Package: libpcsclite1-dbg
Package: libpcsclite-dev
Package: libsmartcols1
Package: libsmartcols-dev
Package: libudisks2-0
Package: libudisks2-dev
Package: libuuid1
Package: loginkit
Package: mount
Package: pcscd
Package: qemu
Package: qemubuilder
Package: qemu-guest-agent
Package: qemu-kvm
Package: qemu-system
Package: qemu-system-arm
Package: qemu-system-common
Package: qemu-system-mips
Package: qemu-system-misc
Package: qemu-system-ppc
Package: qemu-system-sparc
Package: qemu-system-x86
Package: qemu-user
Package: qemu-user-binfmt
Package: slim
Package: udisks2
Package: udisks2-doc
Package: util-linux
Package: util-linux-locales
Package: uuid-dev
Package: uuid-runtime
root@hp8530w:~#