On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 14:12 +0000, Miroslav Rovis wrote:
> Hi Svante and everybody!
>
> (and zap, to whom you right as second person in the email I'm
> replying to. zap
> might give useful advice, since he --later-- reported he successfully
> installed
> OpenRC)
>
> Svante, I'm taking your suggestion in the other thread some three
> days ago now,
> or so.
>
> I want to try OpenRC in my Devuan.

Ok, let's see if I can help you.

>
> > Did you see my mail? I can send you the packages
> > libfdisk1     2.29.2-1+devuan1
> > util-linux    2.29.2-1+devuan1
>
> I believe/hope all that is necessary is now in these repos that you
> wrote below (but is it so?):

These packages still FTBFS in ascii-proposed due to a bug in pbuilder.
I can send them privately to you: i386 or amd64?

> Except, in the other email, which is some two days ago, the second
> line is:
> deb     http://packages.devuan.org/devuan ascii-proposed main
> and so I added that newer line, by you. I added it to, ah, here's the
> entire:
...
>     deb     http://packages.devuan.org/devuan ascii-proposed main
> I hope that is fine.

Yes you need that line for the latest version of sysvinit* and
initscripts (2.88dsf-59.9+devuan2)


> Install which packages?
apt-get install sysvinit-core
apt-get install sysvinit-utils #Depends on util-linux see below
>
> the web --for other readers, since more non-experts like me read this
> ML--:
> error processing package initscripts, because /lib/init/vars.sh
> missing
> https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20170706.105041.4bae37b7.en.htm
> l 

If you don't have mixed versions, i.e. any newer version of utul-linux
than 2.28-1+devuan3 you don't have to worry.

>
> (quote created manually)
> > Regarding util-linux (2.29.2-1+devuan1) that version is needed in
> > order
> > to install sysvinit-utils (2.88dsf-59.9+devuan2) required by
> > initscripts (2.88dsf-59.9+devuan2) and
> > sysvinit-core (2.88dsf-59.9+devuan2) is needed if you want to try
> > openrc out.
> > In such case you need to enable ascii-proposed:
> > deb http://packages.devuan.org/devuan ascii-proposed main
>
> I'm not sure I understand completely. But in bottom I'll give what I
> have
> installed...

> > NOTE: If you are on real HW, please make sure you can recover in
> > case
> > something goes wrong!!!
>
> I'll have to spend a few hours, as I'm rather meticulous, but I will
> be able to
> recover in case of failure.

Good :)

> Is it still necessary to be sent these source files you mentioned
> above?

Yes, until it builds properly, see above.

> # apt-cache policy initscripts
> # apt-cache policy sysvinit-core
> sysvinit-core:
>   Installed: 2.88dsf-59.3+devuan2
>   Candidate: 2.88dsf-59.3+devuan2

Here you should see:
apt-cache policy initscripts
initscripts:
  Installed: 2.88dsf-59.9+devuan2
  Candidate: 2.88dsf-59.9+devuan2
  Version table:
 *** 2.88dsf-59.9+devuan2 100
        100 http://packages.devuan.org/devuan ascii-proposed/main amd64
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.88dsf-59.3+devuan2 500
        500 http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged ascii/main amd64
Packages
and similar for sysvinit-core

> Svante, pls. send me the packages if needed! Or zap, you can send
> them to me
> either. As soon as I get them, I'll confirm with a short notice to
> this ML.

See above: i386 or amd64?