On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:32:05 +0000
KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 04:27:54PM +0000, KatolaZ wrote:
>
> [cut]
>
> > > 90e301dc00303665914b0d64d55d0457 /etc/devuan_version
> > >
> > > But it says 'jessie' and what is the 'obsolete' all about ?
> > >
> >
> >
> > Please hold on on that. With Evilham we have rebuilt a new version
> > of base-files, which should fix the problem.
> >
>
> BTW, the base-files package I was mentioning (version 9.9+devuan2.0)
> is already available in ascii-proposed:
>
> deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/ ascii-proposed main
>
> ;)
>
> KatolaZ
>

Yes, that deb fixed the problem, but I had to download the deb and
install it with dpkg. I added the deb line to sources.list and ran
'apt-get update' but I couldn't install the new file with 'apt-get', I
probably didn't use the right incantation :-)

Thanks

Rowland