On 14/11 20:17, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> 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
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Dng mailing list
> > > > Dng@???
> > > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
> > >
> > > 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.

The archived Devuan jessie is available at archive.devuan.org/merged,
with its Packages files referring to the likewise archived Debian
packages at archive.debian.org/debian.

E.g, you may have the following sources.list line:

deb http://archive.devuan.org/merged jessie main

for accessing the Devuan jessie packages, including the directly
incorporated debian packages.

Ralph.