Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-13 Thread José Marinho via Dng
- > From: Mark Hindley > Sent: Tue Sep 10 22:28:06 CEST 2019 > To: José Marinho > Cc: devuan developers internal list , Dng > > Subject: Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback > needed > > > José, > > Hello. Thanks for thi

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-13 Thread José Marinho via Dng
> Cc: devuan developers internal list , Dng > > Subject: Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback > needed > > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 10:41:29AM +0200, José Marinho wrote: > > For the first point, you are right, the final hyphen makes a big diffe

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-13 Thread José Marinho via Dng
ackend-1-0 (= 0.105-25+devuan4) >Depends: libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (= 0.105-25+devuan4) > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > I hope this will help > > Jose > > > -------------------- > > From: Mark Hindl

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-13 Thread José Marinho via Dng
al list , Dng > > Subject: Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback > needed > > > I have been further testing ways of migrating buster to beowulf. > > With a install of xfce4 and lightdm, the cleanest way I can come up with is: > > #

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-11 Thread Mark Hindley
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 06:25:20PM +0200, José Marinho wrote: > Finally, I managed to get to Beowulf from Buster by doing what is indicated > in the text file I send as an attachment. > > Hope it would be helpful. Yes, thanks. On a quick look all of your difficulties look related to tasksel. I t

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-11 Thread Mark Hindley
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 10:41:29AM +0200, José Marinho wrote: > For the first point, you are right, the final hyphen makes a big difference > and now I am free of the dbus delay and can reach a GUI through Lightdm. Great! > But the other issue persists: > root@dserver:~# apt install --purge polic

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-10 Thread Mark Hindley
José, Hello. Thanks for this. On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 09:40:42PM +0200, José Marinho wrote: > Hi all, > > >From a brand new debian server installation on Virtualbox I install desktop > >stuff by installing task-xfce-destop metapackage and try your instructions. I > >don't know if I miss or misun

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-10 Thread Mark Hindley
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 10:09:12AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote: > Would a transitional package that makes the edit to /var/lib/dpkg/status be > a sane solution? Yes I wondered about that. What would work is a libpam-systemd.deb with Debian #935304 fixed. But it would be a pain to maintain as we

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-10 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 9/10/19 7:59 AM, Mark Hindley wrote: I have been further testing ways of migrating buster to beowulf. With a install of xfce4 and lightdm, the cleanest way I can come up with is: # Migrate from Debian buster to Devuan beowulf # Install devuan-keyring wget http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-10 Thread Mark Hindley
I have been further testing ways of migrating buster to beowulf. With a install of xfce4 and lightdm, the cleanest way I can come up with is: # Migrate from Debian buster to Devuan beowulf # Install devuan-keyring wget http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/d/devuan-keyring/devuan-keyring

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-07 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 9/7/19 2:26 AM, Mark Hindley wrote: libpam-systemd depends systemd-sysv. libpam-systemd also depends systemd. Devuan's libpam-elogind provides libpam-systemd but conflicts with systemd which must be removed first. However, to get systemd uninstalled we first have to replace systemd-sysv with

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-06 Thread Mark Hindley
On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 11:04:00AM +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote: > On 07/09/19 07:30, Mark Hindley wrote: > But it should use libpam-elogind. Perhaps we need to ban libpam-systemd > to force the use of libpam-elogind instead. The only thing is we need > to check if their is a dep version check on

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-06 Thread wirelessduck--- via Dng
> I have just had a go in a couple of scenarios using a VM. > > The basic process is: > > 1) Install sysvinit-core (if you don't have it already), remove libnss-systemd >and reboot. > 2) Manually download and install devuan-keyring (wget, dpkg -i). > 3) change apt sources from buster to beo

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-06 Thread Daniel Reurich
On 07/09/19 07:30, Mark Hindley wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 11:27:03PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: >> Dear Dev1ers, >> >> Many of you have asked how you can help Devuan. Well, here's an opportunity >> - especially for those who keep asking when Beowulf will be released! > > I have just