On Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:41:24 +0200, Antony wrote in message
<202607291741.25006.Antony.Stone@???>:

> Hi.
>
> Can anyone help me with this, I wonder?
>
> (I've been trying to contact various Debian people about this, but
> I've had no response - even though I ask about Debian and not Devuan
> - and most of the online "documentation" I find is either out of date
> or just doesn't work.)

..my guess is you too became "an enemy spy" or somesuch to the systemd
fanbois.

..I would have asked the good folks as Slackware or PcLinuxOs, they are
good conseratives.

..the PCLinuxOS even has their own Debian branch, where they walked
into this very same usrmerge trap we walked into, hope is they
rebuild their Debian branch core from their rpm-based main branch,
meanwhile, tools like alien can be used to convert their binary rpms
into binary .deb packages.

> I'm trying to find out how to set up a machine to build Devuan for an
> otherwise unsupported architecture. I know about cross-compiling.
>
> Now, I know that Devuan is not a full Linux distribution - it only
> contains things which need modifying from Debian, and the
> repositories perform clever redirects to the Debian repositories for
> packages which don't differ.
>
> However, the installer is clearly Devuan-themed, and I assume that
> there are enough Devuan-specific packages that there is an automated
> build process for these for all the architectures which Devuan does
> support.
>
> Can anyone point me at documentation, or at least "reasonably useful
> guidance notes" on how to set up such a machine?
>
> I've looked at https://www.debian.org/devel/buildd/ which seems to be
> horribly out-of-date, and also https://www.ports.debian.org/ - I've
> followed up contact email address from both of those but got no
> response.
>
> I'm hoping that someone here knows how this is done and can share the
> information :)
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Antony.
>


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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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