On Thu, 2022-09-08 at 21:21 +1000, Ralph Ronnquist wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 11:46:50AM +0100, Peter Duffy wrote: > > I assume that at some point, the installation iso images are going > > to > > be rebuilt to include the new devuan-keyring package? Until this is > > done, a devuan install can only be completed by using the > > wget/chroot/dpkg kludge. > > > > Given LP's move to M$, there's probably more interest than usual in > > devuan and other non-systemd distros at the moment - so maybe this > > needs doing quite urgently. > > > > I did manage to rebuild the chimaera netinstall image with the new > > devuan-keyring package yesterday (I needed to install several > > chimaera > > VMs, and it was an interesting challenge). The new image appears to > > work (install on a virtualbox VM completed without a problem, and > > the > > VM booted fine). If it would be helpful, I'm happy to give details > > of > > how I did it - but I'm conscious that although it seems to work, my > > new > > image is probably slightly different from the original, and I don't > > want to muddy any waters. The best by far would be to have new > > images > > available, built using the standard process. On the other hand, it > > might be good for the process of generating debian/devuan > > installation > > images to be more widely known (there doesn't seem to be a lot of > > information on the web about it, and what there is seems mostly to > > be > > out-of-date and/or broken). > > To build a chimaera netinstall, the following command sequence might > work: > > $ git clone https://git.devuan.org/devuan/installer-iso.git > $ cd installer-iso > $ TRIAL=yes ./build-sudo chimaera netinstall 4.2.meown > > You obviusly need sudo, or you may run it as root. > > That scripting will firstly debootstrap a chimaera installer building > hosting filesystem, then chroot into that for the actual iso > building. > The resulting ISO ends up at chimaera.$ARCH.fs/installer-iso/ with > the > name of netinstall-$ARCH.iso. > > I'm doing like that so it must work the same for everyone ;) > > Ralph.
Thanks for that - I was hoping that the tools to do this were generally available. I'll give it a try. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng