On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 05:41:18PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2016 29 Apr 16:53 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > Let me see if I understand you correctly. the package firmware-iwlwifi > > is not open software, and so is not available from the devuan package > > archive. So > > > > a) The sources.list line > > deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main non-free contrib > > should not have non-free appended because devuan does not support > > non-free packages. > > I just posted a message to another thread where I have my sources.list > set as: > > deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main contrib non-free
My line is the same: deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main non-free contrib > and firmware-iwlwifi is not shown to be in the obsolete and locally > installed packages section in Aptitude CUI which tells me that it is > in the list of available packages. Indeed, it is now present. > > c) The same for task-mail-server, which apparently has some > > non-free drivers. Is this why it is absent? I had to install the > > obvious applications such as exim4, procmail, mutt, spamassassin, > > individually. # aptitude show task-mail-server E: Unable to locate package task-mail-server > Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us KB1GRM, ET1(SS) ret. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
