On 03/05/15 21:24, Anto wrote:
>
> On 03/05/15 06:31, Edward Bartolo wrote:
>> The command I used:
>> debootstrap --arch amd64 jessie /mnt/sda8
>> http://packages.devuan.org/merged
>>
>> /mnt/sda8 is the partition where Devuan was installed.
>>
>> I will now start testing Devuan.
>
> Hello Edward,
>
> I also tried the installation from that Devuan merged repository using
> the same debootstrap command line options. The ones you used actually
> also pull libsystemd0, systemd and systemd-sysv. Perhaps you expect less
> restrictions on systemd components in Devuan.
>
> As for me, I think I have to wait a little bit longer until the Devuan
> merged repository can provide more "cleaner" packages. I initially tried
> to use the following debootstrap options.
>
> debootstrap --arch=amd64 --include
> linux-image-amd64,grub-pc,locales,console-setup,ssh
> --exclude=libsystemd0,systemd,systemd-sysv,init-system-helpers jessie
> /tmp/sda1 http://packages.devuan.org/merged
>
> And I got below messages:
>
> W: Failure while configuring base packages. This will be re-attempted
> up to five times.
> W: See /tmp/sda1/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the
> package openssh-server is at fault)
>
> The failure on openssh-server is due to the exclusion of
> init-system-helpers because I don't get those messages when I removed
> init-system-helpers from the exclusion list.
>
> When I didn't include ssh I got below messages, which is also due to the
> exclusion of init-system-helpers.
>
> W: Failure while configuring base packages. This will be re-attempted
> up to five times.
> W: See /tmp/sda1/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the
> package cron is at fault)
>
> When I had a look on the sources on that Devuan merged repository, I
> didn't see init-system-helpers on the debian/control files of both
> openssh-server and cron. Perhaps their dependencies are the ones which
> require init-system-helpers.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anto
>


Unfortunately (for the moment) you will need to enable 3rd-party repos
to build a fully-functional system with a (xfxe4) DE:

deb http://angband.pl/debian/ nosystemd main
deb http://exegnulinux.net/nosystemd/ jessie main

The sooner that is no longer necessary the better.

You will also need to (immediately after debootstrap in a chroot):

cat << EOF > /etc/apt/preferences.d/01systemd

Package: *systemd*
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: -1

EOF

cat << EOF > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01norecommends

APT::Install-Recommends "0";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";

EOF

else when you run apt-get in the chroot *systemd* *will* get it's claws
in. The "recommends" only will make sure (xfce at least).

I have tested this multiple times in recent days.

Without that you may not be able to shutdown, reboot, suspend, handle
removables...

D