>>>>> "David" == David Kuehling <dvdkhlng@???> writes:

> Hi, can I perform an "upgrade" from Debian Jessie to Devuan, as
> described on devuan.org, on a system running MIPSel architecture
> Debian?

Replying to myself, just for the mail archives: after some chatting on
#debian-fork it looks like currently Devuan does not build for MIPS
architectures, just for ARM and x86. Also Devuan does not seem to have
any build machines currently for MIPS which would be a prerequisite to
start any work in that direction.

Anybody else here interested in Devuan on MIPS(el) machines? I may
volunteer some time and (hw) resources, but one developer alone would
not be much.

Especially on Mips one may have to work with older or non-official
kernels, which used to be no problem with Debian, until Systemd came
around. Here [1] it says systemd needs Linux > 3.7: I only have <= 3.5
on my Mips machines. Now I'm afraid of ever running "apt-get update"
again. Having Devuan will make working on Mips systems so much easier
(I currently use pinning to keep systemd off my system).

cheers,

David

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/README#n39
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