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Author: KatolaZ
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To: Steve Litt
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:57:58AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:

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>
> Thanks Joel,
>
> With my particular skillset, I'd envision my involvement to be more of
> documentation somewhat like the Manjaro Experiments
> (http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/init/manjaro_experiments.htm).
> With a description of how to set the thing up, others would try it, and
> if there's demand, somebody would do the magic necessary to bring it
> into the package manager.
>


Steve,

there is really no magic skill involved. By using kernel-package the
"skills" needed to do what you mention are just those needed to
compile a standard kernel + invoking make-kpkg. There is also a
relatively old howto here:

http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html

which might be still enough.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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