On 04/29/2016 09:50 PM, Haines Brown wrote: > >> Hellekin wrote: >> >> You should use http://packages.devuan.org/merged/ for >> Devuan sources. Not anything else. >
Update: auto.mirror.devuan.org gives you the closest (fastest) mirror available, and is preferred. > 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. > No. If you choose to append "non-free", non-free packages will be transparently made available from the Debian archive. Amprolla does the transparent proxy and keep systemd dependencies off your system. It's a bit sad to block free software and allow non-free software, but this is how it goes now. Hopefully someday we don't need to block any free software, nor allow any non-free software. > b) The only way to get firmware-iwlwifi, an essential package I cannot > do without, is to get it as I did from the Debian mirror, but I'm > "on my own" because Devuan does not support it. > Wrong. See above. > 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. > You should use Devuan like you use Debian, except the sources should use devuan.org exclusively. BTW we're trying to push auto.mirror.devuan.org and CC.mirror.devuan.org (CC = country code) instead of packages.devuan.org, e.g., deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie main deb-src http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie main == hk -- _ _ We are free to share code and we code to share freedom (_X_)yne Foundation, Free Culture Foundry * https://www.dyne.org/donate/ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng