On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 11:46:50AM +0100, Peter Duffy wrote:
> I assume that at some point, the installation iso images are going to
> be rebuilt to include the new devuan-keyring package? Until this is
> done, a devuan install can only be completed by using the
> wget/chroot/dpkg kludge. 
>
> Given LP's move to M$, there's probably more interest than usual in
> devuan and other non-systemd distros at the moment - so maybe this
> needs doing quite urgently.
>
> I did manage to rebuild the chimaera netinstall image with the new
> devuan-keyring package yesterday (I needed to install several chimaera
> VMs, and it was an interesting challenge). The new image appears to
> work (install on a virtualbox VM completed without a problem, and the
> VM booted fine). If it would be helpful, I'm happy to give details of
> how I did it - but I'm conscious that although it seems to work, my new
> image is probably slightly different from the original, and I don't
> want to muddy any waters. The best by far would be to have new images
> available, built using the standard process. On the other hand, it
> might be good for the process of generating debian/devuan installation
> images to be more widely known (there doesn't seem to be a lot of
> information on the web about it, and what there is seems mostly to be
> out-of-date and/or broken).

To build a chimaera netinstall, the following command sequence might
work:

$ git clone https://git.devuan.org/devuan/installer-iso.git
$ cd installer-iso
$ TRIAL=yes ./build-sudo chimaera netinstall 4.2.meown

You obviusly need sudo, or you may run it as root.

That scripting will firstly debootstrap a chimaera installer building
hosting filesystem, then chroot into that for the actual iso building.
The resulting ISO ends up at chimaera.$ARCH.fs/installer-iso/ with the
name of netinstall-$ARCH.iso.

I'm doing like that so it must work the same for everyone ;)

Ralph.