On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 02:44:14PM -0700, Gregory Nowak via Dng wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> What is the best way to install Devuan Ceres?
> I filed a bug report against sqwebmail a while ago in Debian's bug
> tracker, and the new maintainer of that package is asking me if the
> bug still exists in the version which is in Debian Sid. I see there
> is a netinst image for Excalibur. I need to install a whole system, at
> least apache, postfix, and sqwebmail. So, back to my question. What is the best way to install
> Ceres? Install Excalibur, and apt full-upgrade to Ceres, or is there a
> better way? Thanks.

My preference foro such testing is to use debootstrap, to create a
filesystem that I can chroot into. With excalibur's debootstrap, I
would do:

# debootstrap --variant=minbase ceres /opt/ceres http://deb.devuan.org/merged
# chroot /opt/ceres

That creates a rather small root filesystem. Thereafter I would run
# apt-get install ...

to populate that filesystem with whatever is needed. For some usecase
it will need proc, devtmpfs, devpts and sys mounted inside the chroot.

YMMW. Regards, Ralph.

>
> Greg
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