dear Frits

quick ACK on your email on devuan-dev, already read it there

I'm asking Katolaz (debian-live-build) to provide details about this,
to understand in what capacity he is using live-build.

my understanding of the issue so far is that live-build is important
to us and it will be a requirement of the SDK we are working on, so it
is very useful what you are doing and we will rely on it.

I will give you more details in the coming days as soon as Katolaz
re-emerges from the weekend


On Sun, 04 Sep 2016, Godefridus Daalmans wrote:

> Hello people, especially Jaromil Nextime and CenturionDan,
>
> I'm currently working on an experiment to re-connect our version of
> live-build to a new "upstream".
>
> The original author, Daniel Baumann, had finished version 4.0.3
> (published for Debian Jessie) years ago, and worked on a branch 5.0
>
> Then I took 4.0.3 and made it work for Devuan Jessie
> (http://packages.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/l/live-build/live-build_4.0.3-1%2Bdevuan2.debian.tar.xz
>
> )
>
> Now mr. Baumann is working for Open Infrastructure.net
>
> and they have done a lot of work on live-build (now called system-build)
>
> https://open-infrastructure.net/software/system-build/
>
>
> So.. now I took my 11 Devuan patches, and smoothly (well.. "kicking and
> screaming") adapted them for open-infrastructure-system-build
> 5.0.20160701
>
> diff
> (yesterday) I haven't tested anything yet, because that also takes hours of
> work with this particular program.
> (today) autobuild doesn't work yet, and i have to fix 2 bugs and have no
> time today
>
>
> But the purpose of this exercise is, to keep my version of
> 4.0.3-1+devuan2 as the (discontinued) live-build program for Devuan
> Jessie, but instead to
> use the "real" upstream open-infrastructure-system-build 5.0 as our
> upstream for Devuan Ascii and beyond.
>
> Do you approve of this idea? I haven't contacted Baumann yet (well, just
> a short e-mail to say hello), but if you agree that we should use
> open-infrastructure-system-build from Ascii on,
> then I'll e-mail him to tell him that.
>
> Live-build is not a critical program for normal users of Devuan, however
> it is an important tool for people who want to make a distro based on
> Devuan, and it took some work to disentangle systemd out of it.
> And despite the fact that live-build is difficult to learn to use, it
> does its work extremely well.
>
> Greetings,
> Frits Daalmans
>
> PS I sent an e-mail with the same contents to devuan-dev
> PPS no CC: to aitor because his e-mail didn't work yesterday

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