I would be willing to help with this idea. Who would I contact? I'd need to learn the process so I could help automate it.
Rod On 12/7/21 3:16 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I wonder if building Devuan can be further automated. Void Linux has > some super-duper software processes to do much of this automatically. > It works right off of a git server (unfortunately, github). If I'm not > mistaken it puts out two updates a day, but of course there's no > automatic updating so the user chooses when to do all the updates up to > current. With very few people, Void Linux manages to keep a very > complete distro with very few screwups, and they fix major security > flaws about as fast as Debian. > > I'm wondering if Devuan could make use of something similar. Perhaps > doing this would free up resources to Devuanize more packages, for less > dependency on Debian. > > Before you ask, no, I can't help. I'm indexing my new book, I'm making > provisions so programs written in Freepascal, C, and pretty much any > other language, can send a sine wave to the speakers (a capability > requiring waaaaay too much programming in Linux). Of course I'll > release it as Free Software. > > The Debian "Community" is getting more rotten every day. Just today on > Debian-User, somebody asked a maybe sorta dumb question, and several > people gleefully jumped all over him. One guy (not the OP) thanked > everybody for their diverse solutions, and then criticized the OP, > signing his email "With kindest regards" :-). Another guy managed to > bring the OP's advanced age into it. So it's not just their politicians > with their rigged GRs, it's the very citizenry of Debian itself. In the > long run it's probably going to be advantageous for Devuan to move more > toward a distro of its own, before the Debian crowd decide to put in > halloween code to sabotage Devuan. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful > Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > -- Rod Rodolico Daily Data, Inc. POB 140465 Dallas TX 75214-0465 US https://dailydata.net 214.827.2170 ext 100 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng