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Author: aitor_czr
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To: Ralph Ronnquist, dng
New-Topics: [DNG] vdev packaging Was: Re: Dng Digest, Vol 23, Issue 103
Subject: Re: [DNG] Dng Digest, Vol 23, Issue 103

Hi Ralph,

On 08/26/2016 02:00 PM, Ralph Ronnquist <ralph.ronnquist@???>wrote:
> So, I took the steps of forking Jude Nelson's vdev on git.devuan.org,
> and augmenting it with an initial set up for deb package building.
>
> I set it up as three deb's:
>      libudev1-compat to replace libudev1,
>      vdevd being the daemon, and
>      vdev being the configuration, initramfs building and the set up as
> sysvinit startup script.

>
> I've built sample packages for amd64, and tested on a pristine Devuan
> 1.0.0, (with DE+Xfce, printer server and ssh server). Available at
>
> https://git.devuan.org/ralph.ronnquist/vdev/release
>
> If you download those and install together (as in dpkg -i *.deb), your
> system will change into using vdev rather than udev, but it doesn't
> uninstall udev for you. It "only" removes udev's sysvinit scripts, and
> udev's configuration for initramfs building, and the "init" script
> (replaces the one from initramfs-tools).
>
> When installing, it might warn about volume symlinks not being created.
> It's is safe to ignore this. Alternatively you install lvm2 first.
>
> You can also build your own deb's by cloning
> https://git.devuan.org/ralph.ronnquist/vdev
>
> and using
> $ make -f debian.mk
>
> provided you have dh_make and dpkg-buildpackage, as well as
> build-essential. Since I'm quite new to package building, it only
> contains the bare-bones so far. There are also no upstream changes to
> source other than to Makefile's and initramfs scripts, with the
> exception of the very minor patch to vdevd/helpers/LINUX/udev-compat.sh.
>
> As a side note, eventually I realised that the main issue why the
> keyboard didn't work, was that the evdev module didn't get installed,
> and that it needs to be installed before /dev/input is populated.
>
> Ralph.


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