On 19/05/15 20:31, yvesjv@??? wrote:
>
> Hi Anto,
>
> From your posts it appears that you are doing a lot of work cleaning
> up these packages.
>
> Apologies if I've missed a previous post as I think it would be
> extremely helpful to all interested if you documented your invaluable
> work on a wiki of sorts?
>
> Perhaps more could assist with the cleanups :-)
>
>
> Thanks
>

Yes, it has been quite a lot of work for me, especially due to the lack
of my skills in the programming and Debian packaging as I am just an
ordinary user. So what I have been doing is basically trial and error :)

Change something, re-compile, revert back when fails, again and again
until the packages get successfully compiled. But that is not the end of
it. The installation of the packages that have been successfully
compiled are not always smooth. I broke my install several times. But I
didn't spend time to troubleshoot, again due to the lack of my skills.
After taking some logs and notes on something which I thought might be
related to the changes that I made. I put back the disk image which I
always take before any installation, then start all over again :)

So I think that is quite embarrassing, especially for Devuan (for me, I
don't really care) if that kind of process would be documented some
where on Devuan site :)

I have leant a lot by reading the commits on Devuan gitlab, especially
the ones with the title related to "removing systemd" like
https://git.devuan.org/packages-base/dbus/commit/2ebb243f3fa51790d93e7f21a11dca324df6b0fd,
https://git.devuan.org/packages-base/network-manager/commit/665eb3cb32e9ca3f4294f783375e4118d9b78427
and many others.

Cheers,

Anto