Dear All and dev1fanboy,
this is just to let you know that I followed your guide to upgrade my
debian wheezy install and it went very well!
Thank you for the great instructions.
It was a really messed up old installation and the upgrade sorted it out
brilliantly.
Just as a note, gnome was still there at the end of the upgrade, refusing
to start.
I solved it with: # apt-get purge gnome* , followed by the installation of
XFCE
I am (was) a long time gnome user, so it was not a easy choice, but I
definitely prefer to get accustomed to a new DE / WM rather than getting
accustomed to systemd.
I still have to purge dbus, though.....
I am sure this list is not short of italian translators, but please let me
know if I could help translating the guide for wiki or for other
documentation purposes.
All the best.
Antonio
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:
> Le 09/11/2015 05:06, Sam a écrit :
>
>> On 07/11/15 20:53, Didier Kryn wrote:
>>
>>> Le 07/11/2015 11:02, dev1fanboy@??? a écrit :
>>>
>>>> All that info is right as far as I can tell.
>>>>
>>>> gcc versions from /proc/version are labelled as debian for me too.
>>>>
>>>> The kernel remembers who has compiled it, when, and where. If you
>>> compile it yourself you'll be pleased to see your username in
>>> /proc/version. You can also add some tag to the kernel version It is
>>> also possible to add some tag to the version of gcc if you compile it
>>> yourself, and it will appear when you invoke 'gcc --version'.
>>>
>>> As long as Devuan keeps Debian packages for kernel and gcc, you're
>>> going to see that they have been compiled by Debian devs. And Devuan,
>>> for the moment only modifies packages which need to, in order to get rid
>>> of systemd dependency. This does not involve gcc, and not yet the kernel.
>>>
>>> Didier
>>>
>>> Thanks Didier, for the advice and especially for setting me straight on
>> this matter. I should have realised this before I raised it as a quirk
>> or an issue; I've compiled many, many custom kernels, so I should have
>> been well-aware of the process and the tweaks that are possible - and
>> having played with that one in particular when customising and compiling
>> kernels off-platform for the particular idiosyncrasies of the eventual
>> host systems, I should have been more attentive to this.
>>
>> Thanks especially for dignifying my input into the discussion with your
>> response.
>>
>> Sam
>>
>
> Dear Sam,
>
> You seem experienced in embedded Linux (compiling custom kernels).
> This is a field in which I gained a little experience, and this is how I
> learned the most about the init process. And it is probably for this reason
> that I became a Devuan fan at the beginning of this year. I guess people
> must have some knowledge of init to have an opinion on how it should be :-)
>
> I, like you, have a great respect for the goals of the VUAs. I admire
> their talent regarding both Debian and Cloud technologies.
>
> Didier
>
>
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