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#1951 Re: Installation » Help with bootup info and stuff » 2019-06-07 01:46:30

jitterssnowpaw wrote:

Ok how do I add backports to my sources.list I'm lost.

https://devuan.org/os/etc/apt/sources.list

#1952 Re: Off-topic » Google search gives DEVUAN as DEAD ? » 2019-06-06 23:33:34

Check your settings.  There should be options regarding the predictive paramaters that best suit you.  And while you say "Google" I hope you aren't using that directly.  Both DuckDuckGo and StartPage neuter some of the more egregious aspects of unfiltered Google searches.

#1953 Devuan » Clarification of the relationship between Dyne and Devuan » 2019-06-06 23:19:37

golinux
Replies: 12

Every Devuan user should read this.  It is quite informative and yes, jaromil, we now have a clear picture of where Dyne is coming from.  Thank you!

On 2019-06-06 02:33, Jaromil wrote:
[snip] . . .  Devuan is not an organisation, a company, a
corporation or an IT management dept; but a community driven
GNU+Linux distribution where we are all unpaid volunteers devolving
free time in exchange of quality (both on the technical level and the
human interaction).

From the lesson Katolaz thought us I learned that the good spirit of
volunteers is definitely more important than the distro, that noone
should be pushed or held accountable or stressed about problems about
Devuan: because our distro will simply not work well and be in need of
someone to find time or someone new to step in on his/her own will.

This is why Devuan comes without any warranty, nor explicit or
implied. If we'd have more resources as a community (in terms of
donations, but also time of people perhaps partly covered by
companies) we would certainly change that, but all things standing now
we all have other commitments and if "it works for me" then I have no
urge to fix, I'd rather make sure everyone is in good health and
enjoys doing what we are doing, even if the repos are down for two
months
.

This is now my attitude. If anyone needs more then please contact us
at devuan.pro and someone will provide you professional support and
99% availability at a fair price. Also please mind that I'm saying
this while investing a *lot* of resources (in money and time) of the
organisation I'm leading (Dyne.org) on Devuan GNU+Linux and on top of
that we also need to maintain priority and peace of mind among
co-workers of our organisation.

I now really hope people have a clear picture of the situation on my
side of the pond when they interact with us at Dyne.org about problems
in Devuan.

ciao

Archived here

#1954 Re: Installation » Help with bootup info and stuff » 2019-05-31 23:25:05

jitterssnowpaw wrote:

So can I like add the regular Debian repo's and get the software from there like the latest wine and all that cause I want to install Lutris and play LoL

Do not use Debian repos directly.  Devuan already pulls from the Debian repos via redirect that filters out stuff that would cause breakage.  Have you looked in backports?

#1955 Re: Installation » Help with bootup info and stuff » 2019-05-31 20:31:23

jitterssnowpaw wrote:

Ok thank you very much how come Telegram doesn't come up in the package manager but it does on like say Ubuntu. What do I need to add to sources.list for that type of stuff to come up? XDD

As to telegram . . . it's in backports:

https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/d1pk … elease=any

Devuan is not Ubuntu.  Repos are not mix-and-match.  You might want to read this:
https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

#1956 Re: Installation » Help with bootup info and stuff » 2019-05-31 17:56:01

fsmithred wrote:

deb.devuan.org was fixed (today?)

Yesterday after I got hit with it I went on a bit of a rant . . .

#1957 Re: Installation » Devuan Jessie: Many packages moved to local/obsolete » 2019-05-31 04:21:54

Yes, finally some action today thanks to parazyd.  I had 73 updates waiting after I updated.

#1958 Re: Installation » Help with bootup info and stuff » 2019-05-31 02:52:50

What Devuan release is installed and please post your sources.list.  Does it include non-Devuan sources?

#1959 Re: Devuan » Meet cinnabar (Beowulf default theme) » 2019-05-30 17:39:00

Excellent to have this documented here.  Thanks to both of you.

#1960 Re: Devuan » Meet cinnabar (Beowulf default theme) » 2019-05-29 20:05:50

Finally got around to doing the Beowulf cinnabar theme for openbox.  Since I have barely used openbox, setting up the default look was a challenge for me.  You'll need spacefm to get the default wallpaper.  Thanks to fsmithred for the pointers.
openbox menu

openbox menu

And here's the themerc

#1961 Re: News & Announcements » We're now 800 strong here! » 2019-05-29 16:25:46

Another milestone of sorts . . . the bean counter just turned to 1000 with "cuncator".

#1962 Re: Other Issues » ceres repository no longer has a Release file - cannot update » 2019-05-28 21:04:03

mknoop wrote:

I wonder why?

Because ceres/sid/unstable are identical.

Devuan's pkgmaster is currently being worked on . . . not too smoothly, it seems.  Some linkages seem to be fubared.

#1963 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Ports vs Pkgs » 2019-05-27 04:04:53

You can search the Devuan repositories with https://pkginfo.devuan.org/ to see what's available.

#1965 Re: Other Issues » How i can fix ? » 2019-05-23 04:48:07

Getting OT but can't remember ever seeing much of a discussion in this camp about SELinux.

#1966 Re: Other Issues » How i can fix ? » 2019-05-23 04:16:18

yeti wrote:
Dutch_Master wrote:

I'd suggest to re-install Devuan with separate partitions for /etc, /var, /usr and /home.

/etc?

Maybe that would work on his Funtoo . . .  wink

#1967 Re: Devuan » UsrMerge on Devuan? » 2019-05-18 16:38:41

Yeah . . . it's another clusterf*** from the freedesktop.org folks.

#1968 Re: Installation » [solved]Paused at installing grub? » 2019-05-18 16:22:36

There are also install guides with screenshots posted on the website that might be helpful. And on the index page a description of what the various installers provide.

#1969 Re: Devuan » UsrMerge on Devuan? » 2019-05-18 00:45:22

IIRC the default in Devuan Beowulf will be to NOT merge /usr.

#1971 Re: Installation » Beowulf questions » 2019-05-11 01:36:42

I often get conflicts and "you have broken packages" notices with perl upgrades.  Usually a reboot allows me to do the upgrade immediately after logging in but I guess that depends on what the conflicts are exactly.

#1972 Re: Installation » Interested in installing devuan, couple questions before I do » 2019-05-10 21:17:58

rolfie wrote:

If you want to install external packages that are available in Debian use the Stretch package and it works.

Not a good idea - installing directly from Debian repos could put you in a world of hurt.  Devuan filters the Debian repos and bans packages that could break your system.  The Debian packages that won't break Devuan are already provided via redirect to the Devuan repos.

#1973 Re: Intergalactic Communities » Does NASA use Devuan? » 2019-05-09 17:34:26

alupoj wrote:
golinux wrote:

Not Devuan but the International Space Station did move to Debian some years ago.

Smart move, from Windows to systemD :b

That happened in 2013 before systemd was entrenched in Debian.  I have no idea whether they are still on Debian or moved to another Linux distro.  I wonder if they might move to Devuan one day.

#1974 Re: Intergalactic Communities » Does NASA use Devuan? » 2019-05-09 14:02:41

Not Devuan but the International Space Station did move to Debian some years ago.

#1975 Re: Other Issues » deb.devuan.org doesn't get updates for Jessie, auto.mirror.devuan does » 2019-05-09 03:24:37

MiyoLinux wrote:

I may be wrong, but I don't remember being advised to change jessie repositories over to deb.devuan.org. I thought they were supposed to stay as auto.mirror.devuan.org. Seems like deb.devuan.org was introduced with ASCII.

I just looked at the Devuan website, and it's still showing jessie as using auto.mirror.devuan.org.

auto.mirror.devuan.org is still the default repository because there has never been a point release for jessie and that is the repository used on the isos.

This note is also on the website (in several places):

IMPORTANT NOTE: auto.mirror is now deprecated and will be decommissioned. Please make sure you have the latest devuan-keyring package with apt-get install devuan-keyring and then point your /etc/apt/sources.list to deb.devuan.org.

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