Right. Perhaps the first caveat is that I trimmed down the installation
(without DE etc and only leaving standard utilites) by purging as much
as I thought sensible.

Other than that, I made vdev installation as per README, then:

a) changed /etc/vdev/vdevd.conf to in particular have
    logfile=/run/vdev/vdev.log
    (the /var directory is ro when it starts)

b) add missing /etc/vdev/acl directory, and copied in the file
    00-whitelist-root.acl from the example directory
    (the acl directory was missing and it just looked like a good idea 
to include that file; not sure why)

c) [also for testing] fixed the paths in example/vdevd.conf for acls,
actions, ifnames and hwdb, which pointed wrong. The hwdb in particular
needs to be right for making the initramfs.

I believe that's all. I'm planning to retry this on a DE installation
shortly.

regards,

Ralph.

On 08/08/16 04:35, shraptor wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I know very little about Devuan package building, so I jumped
>> straight to compiling the github source for vdev, and installing from
>> it. After just a couple of tweaks of the runtime and initramfs
>> configurations, I've made a successful replacement on a pristine
>> Devuan 1.0.0 install, with the 3.16.0-4-amd64 kernel.
>>
>> Of course I don't know anything about how complete it is in respect of
>> handling all sorts of devices.
>
> By any chance you could share procedure since I tried the same and failed?
>
> Not git and compiling of course but how you got it to cooperate with Devuan
>
> /scooby
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