Godefridus,

You didn't step on my toes. You did something else that was very much
needed. I made an unofficial devuan-alpha-live, because some people were
asking for it. I used the refracta scripts because, 1. I know them well,
and 2. I gave up on live-build when I realized there was no way to exclude
systemd.

If you fixed the second issue, then may God/Godess/FSM bless you!

And yeah, automation is another reason to use the live-build scripts.

Speaking of excluding systemd from a live-build, are you able to get the
isos to boot? We had a problem with that, starting last year with a
util-linux upgrade.

-fsr

On 10/08/2015 10:30 AM, Godefridus Daalmans wrote:
> First, about fsmithred from refracta: I simply wasn't aware that somebody
> had already done this. Sorry fsmithred. I don't keep good track of the
> developments.
>
> Is there something like these newfangled "web sites" where I could read
> the latest news? And I don't mean git.devuan.org/packages-base because
> frankly, I get lost there easily.
>
>
> Second, I didn't actually use the live-build scripts from Debian as-is. I
> tried, but it kept pushing systemd at me.
>
> So I patched the live-build scripts. We need a Devuan version. I volunteer.
>
> Without the live-build scripts (or, my tweaked version) I wouldn't have a
> clue how to set up squashfs, modify initramfs etc., as it automates a lot
> of seriously complicated stuff.
>
>
> Because of other reasons, I decided to make a local copy of large chunks
> of http://packages.devuan.org/merged, constructed a
> dists/jessie/main/Contents-amd64.gz file (live-build script
> chroot_firmware needed this), and then ran my modified live-build script.
> So it's currently still not as easy as it could be.
>
> One last comment: it only worked, because you people had done all the work
> of de-systemd-ing all those essential packages :-)
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