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Author: fsmithred
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To: devuan-dev
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] [DNG] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed
On 9/6/19 7:57 PM, wirelessduck@??? wrote:
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>> I have just had a go in a couple of scenarios using a VM.
>>
>> The basic process is:
>>
>> 1) Install sysvinit-core (if you don't have it already), remove libnss-systemd
>>     and reboot.
>> 2) Manually download and  install devuan-keyring (wget, dpkg -i).
>> 3) change apt sources from buster to beowulf.
>> 4) apt update.
>> 4) apt full-upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade.

>
> Should you also be installing the devuan-baseconf package? Or does that get pulled in automatically during the transition?
>
> —Tom


base-files will be pulled in automatically.
devuan-baseconf is useless and shouldn't even be in the repo.

fsmithred