Hi,

Martin Steigerwald <martin@???> writes:

> Hi!
>
> Two recent encounters:
>
> 1) An update to kmod broke make bindeb-pkg to compile a kernel from
> upstream¹. Notably: With applied usrmerge! Fortunately Marco reverted the
> change for now. I saved a copy of a working kmod version for later use,
> just in case.
>
> 2) I am thankful for Lorenzo warning about things starting to break
> without usrmerge with a runit update. However once I updated a more rarely
> updated Devuan system, a ThinkPad X1 Gen 1 tablet, I did not think of it
> anymore. Yet that system was not converted into compliance with usrmerge
> yet. Things broke. Badly so. No kmod in path, no nothing in path, building
> initramfs failed and connecting to WLAN was broken, too. So I did what
> needed to be done. I download usrmerge package and three of its Perl
> dependencies to an USB stick and installed them on the tablet. The tablet
> does not have an Ethernet port so unless finding a USB to Ethernet thing
> USB stick was the way to go.

That looks an awful lot like what I wrote about two months ago.
See https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20231215.111248.07bfab0b.en.html

> [...]
> I really enjoy the community here. People express their opinions.
> Sometimes strongly. But still agree to disagree is working much better
> here.

ACK on the agree to disagree :-)

> [...]

Cheers,
--
Olaf Meeuwissen