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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Old-Topics: Re: [DNG] Jessie to Ascii upgrade
Subject: [DNG] Ancient releases
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 06:40:45PM -0600, golinux@??? wrote:
> On 2020-11-14 18:06, dng@??? wrote:
> > On 14-11-2020 22:36, Fred wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I want to upgrade from Debian Jessie to Devuan.  Apparently all I need
> > > to do is change the sources list and do a dist-upgrade.
> > >
> > > Is this likely to go smoothly?  If there are any problems I would
> > > probably not have Internet to ask for help.
> > >
> > > How does the upgrade get rid of systemd and everything associated with
> > > it?  Or how does one do that?
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Fred
> > > _______________________________________________
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> >
> > Coming from Debian you maybe should change your sources list first to
> >
> > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged jessie main
> >
> > and install the devuan-keyring and sysvinit-core before you move over to
> > devuan ascii.


Is there a line for sources that will access an archived Debian release? I'm
interested in running some software that was dropped from Debian about a
decade ago. I still have a bootable partition with that ancient release
lying round somewhere.

-- hendrik