On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 04:32:58PM +0000, KatolaZ wrote:

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>
> Actually, I have already put together a minimal howto on that (thanks
> to one of the Devuan users on our IRC channel, who tried the steps
> while I was writing down the material). I should put it somewhere,
> maybe on dev1galaxy? It's based on surf, but most of the material can
> be reused to compile other packages as well. I should just polish it a
> bit.

Regarding the previous message, I have finally put on dev1galaxy the
howto on recompiling surf on devuan using the deb-src package, i.e.,
producing a clean .deb package which can be installed/removed safely
with dpkg:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=518

It's not much, but the same procedure can be actually used to
recompile *any* de??an package, not just surf.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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