On 26/07/19 19:22, Jaromil wrote:
>
> dear Olaf,
>
>
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>> I just successfully finished installing using the mini.iso from
>>
>> https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dists/beowulf/main/installer-amd64/20190625%2Bdevuan7/images/netboot/
>
> thanks for your feedback, I found the mini.iso was circulated on IRC
> right after my question; keep thinking that a short notice on the
> mailinglist would greatly improve our communication.

agreed.
>
> last week I ran an analysis with parazyd of the forked packages
> situation and also addressed a recent bug that leads beowulf upgrades
> to have the /etc/apt/sources.list changed with wrong lines by the
> obsolete 'devuan-baseconf' package.
>
> Then at the last meeting we proposed and agreed with everyone to:
>
> - phase out the devuan-baseconf, also from debootstrap (step necessary
> in order not to break mini.iso)
>
devuan-baseconf has been fixed so it should no longer mess with the
repos in /etc/apt/sources.list*

debootstrap in unstable no longer depends on devuan-baseconf, and as
soon I've updated debian-installer (currently broken in unstable again
thanks to recent updates in debian) and I can test the mini.iso in
unstable, I'll migrate the new debootstrap to beowulf and we can proceed.

> - change the /etc/os-release ID to 'debian' in order to overcome
> trivial base distro identification problems and last not least the
> grub2 problem which would lead to the undesirable fork of grub
>
I've completed this task and installs/upgrades to beowulf should no
longer get a broken grub setup.

> I appreciate if anyone eventually operating these changes before we do
> can produce another mini.iso afterwards and notice this list
>
will keep working at it...

cheers,
    Centurion_Dan

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