On Thu, 2022-09-08 at 21:21 +1000, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
> 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 out-of-date and/or broken).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.

Thanks for that - I was hoping that the tools to do this were generally
available. I'll give it a try.