On Thu, 2022-09-08 at 12:29 +0100, Peter Duffy wrote:
> 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 out-of-date and/or broken).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.
>
That worked fine - the image built successfully, and an install from it
on a virtualbox VM was also successful.