can't do this at the moment, my computer screen is messed up on my
devuan ascii computer. alas...

and I don't want to wait two hours to reinstall the whole damn thing...
so I am at a crossroads.

;/ oh well but thank you for telling me about this.

When I get it fixed, I will gladly try it out.

On 06/17/2017 08:32 AM, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-06-17 at 05:59 -0400, zap wrote:
>> okay, then. The computer I have it on needs some work anyways.
> Hi zap,
>

> Did you see my mail? I can send you the packages
> libfdisk1     2.29.2-1+devuan1
> util-linux    2.29.2-1+devuan1

>
> until they are available if you are on i386. Then you can try openrc
> out, just add to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
> deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged ascii main
> deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/devuan ascii-proposed main
> for the other packages.
> and
> apt-get update
> apt-get install ...
>
> NOTE: If you are on real HW, please make sure you can recover in case
> something goes wrong!!!
>

> If you are on amd64 or some other arch I can send you the source files
> (or you can install and build them yourself by: adding
> deb-src http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/devuan     ascii-proposed  main

>
> apt-get update
> apt-get source util-linux (Does not work for me. The Sources file is
> unfortunately empty)
> apt-get build-dep util-linux
> cd util-linux-2.29.2
> dpkg-buildpackage -b
> cd ../build-area
> dpkg -i util-linux_2.29.2-1+devuan1_<your_arch>.deb libfdisk1_2.29.2-
> 1+devuan1_<your_arch>.deb
>
> HTH