On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 01:02:37AM +0200, Nick via Dng wrote:
> On 8/7/26 12:59 AM, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 05:34:37PM +0200, Antony Stone via Dng wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > https://github.com/dyne/devuan-sdk looks very much like what I have been
> > > looking for - a sequence of steps to build a Devuan installer CD from source.
> > >
> > > However, the Disclaimer at the top does not inspire me with confidence that I
> > > should be following these instructions:
> > >
> > > "This SDK version is not up to date with the Continuous Integration workflow
> > > Devuan has in place since a few months now. Updates to this SDK will follow,
> > > meanwhile be aware that this code will not produce iso images valid for
> > > release, since these are done via CI now."
> > >
> > > It's not entirely clear when "now" was for the purposes of that statement,
> > > although the page does also say that "This repository was archived by the
> > > owner on Jan 7, 2023. It is now read-only.", suggesting that it's not going to
> > > be updated with new information after all.
> > >
> > > Is there somewhere else I should be looking for the currently recommended way
> > > to build a Devuan installer CD from source?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any helpful pointers.
> > No sane person uses github anymore. Those sources where migrated to
> > https://git.devuan.org/devuan-sdk/live-sdk
> > together with
> > https://git.devuan.org/devuan-sdk/libdevuansdk
> >
> > Happened some few years ago; when was it M$ bought github ?
> >
> > Ralph.
> >
>
> A sane person deletes of archives the repositories still present on Github.
> And when only archiving, leaves a link to the new repositories.
>

Agree! Ideally they should remove it. But at least add a link. As is,
it tends to cause confusion when many search engines wants to present
github before all else.

Ralph.