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Autor: Arnt Karlsen
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Assumpte: Re: [DNG] no-usr-merged: let's get concrete
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 12:17:45 +0100, KatolaZ wrote in message
<20181119111745.jykbsqvt6gdpwkyb@???>:

> Hi All,
>
> in the last few days we have seen many people going at lengths with
> the pros and cons of a non-merged usr. That has been a great
> discussion. We have put together a solution that consists into
> choosing if you want merged-usr at install time. It's available in the
> current unstable installer:
>
> https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dists/unstable/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso


..these are correct?:
arnt@box:~/devuan$ ll mini.iso &&md5sum mini.iso &&ll -h mini.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 arnt arnt 46137344 Nov 17 20:47 mini.iso
4735f2bb2bf7cd34f65c66b397f8ba42 mini.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 arnt arnt 44M Nov 17 20:47 mini.iso
arnt@box:~/devuan$

>
> It would be great for the vocal support against usr-merge to become a
> concrete piece of help to maintaining choice in Devuan. So if you
> care, please install beowulf/ceres using the mini.iso above and help
> testing all the possible scenarios of non-merged /usr, to discover any
> potential issue/breakage there.
>
> Note: the mini.iso is a barebone netinst, and tasksel does not
> currently work (I am on that). The "Package selection" step will
> fail. Just skip it, continue with the installation, and then install
> stuff with apt-get after reboot.
>
> Please report bugs on https://bugs.devuan.org. We are currently
> upgrading many packages in unstable, including reportbug, so either
> use the reportbug version from ascii or just use reportbug to prepare
> the report and then send the email it creates to
> submit[at]bugs.devuan.org
>
> Your help is very welcome.
>
> HND
>
> KatolaZ
>



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