On 07/05/15 11:47, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 11:05 +0200, Anto wrote:
>> On 06/05/15 05:24, Jaret Cantu wrote:
>> I would really appreciate your feedback and guideline on this. Below are
>> the steps I have done so far.
>> 1. Get eudev-3.0 source from http://dev.gentoo.org/~blueness/eudev/
>> 2. Get Debian build package of eudev from
>> https://git.devuan.org/pkgs-utopia-substitution/devuan-eudev
>> 3. Change debian/changelog and debian/rules
> I think you need to add Replaces: in debian/control at selected packages
> to install properly.

Thanks for the hint. I will look into that.

>> 4. Compile eudev
>> 5. Install eudev (FAILED)
> You are running this test in a VM having snapshots, right? It can brick
> your installation easily.

Oh no. I am running this on a real hardware that I specifically dedicate
it for testing. But yes, I have broken the installation several times,
especially when I was testing vdev (and this eudev).

However, it is very easy for me to recover it as I always dump the whole
hard disk before doing destructive actions. So like this morning, I just
need to do "dd if=devuan_TS8GSSD25S_06May15_2146.img of=/dev/sda bs=4M"
to recover it. As you might notice, I use 8GB SSD SLC SATA hard disk
which I think is too big for testing purpose. I have been looking for
smaller SSD SLC SATA or IDE hard disk possibly 2GB, so that I would need
smaller space for each disk image. But the prices are still incredibly
expensive. I got that 8GB Transcend SSD SLC SATA hard disk from Ebay for
3.93 EUR but the delivery cost was 8.54 EUR :)

I also have the dump of baseline images, in case I need to go back much
further to the state after I did the minimal installations either on
Debian squeeze, Debian wheezy and the one with Devuan merged repository.
Last week, I decided to always do the testing using the image taken from
the debootstrap installation using Devuan merged repository.

Cheers,

Anto