On Tue, 2022-09-06 at 23:02 +1000, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
>
> The required hands-on to make use of the current installer ISOs
> includes the use of wget and dpkg at the point where the installation
> first breaks, though probably only via a C-A-F2 escape to a root
> shell
> while the installation (at C-A-F1) is blocked and waiting on the
> error
> report dialog.
>
> At that point you use wget to grab the devuan-keyring package
> http://deb.devuan.org/merged/pool/DEVUAN/main/d/devuan-keyring/devuan-keyring_2022.09.04_all.deb
> and store that at /target, so you can follow up with manual
> installation into /target, by:
> # chroot /target /usr/bin/dpkg -i devuan-keyring_2022.09.04_all.deb
>
> Following that, you re-enter the installation at C-A-F1 and select
> "continue" so that it re-tries with the failing step using the the
> updated keyring.
>
> On the side of all that I should add that I also taken have the
> opportunity to polish the installer-iso project so that it easily
> builds ISOs for the old releases. Some trial builds of that are
> currently available for testing at https://ido.rrq.id.au/download

Ralph, thanks for the workaround - it worked fine. I had been trying
something similar, but I'd forgotten about the chroot.