Am I correct in assuming that once beowulf goes stable and I update after that, what I'll end up with should be basically identical as if I had installed using the actual beowulf ISO that will then be available? That is, that there's no compelling reason to reinstall etc?

The other thing I was curious about is the fact that I currently see this:

cat /etc/devuan_version
beowulf/ceres

Am I correct in assuming that after an update to a stable beowulf, that will show just "beowulf" as apposed to "beowulf/ceres"?

Thanks in advance, and thanks again for all your hard work fighting the good fight!

Tom

It might be available in the beowulf backports which aren't available yet but will be soon.

Awesome. I'll check back on that. Thanks!

Tom

Does anyone know whether mysql will eventually be available in Beowulf?

Thanks again.
Tom

Mariadb = MySQL, but with less baggage strapped to it. Oracle didn't play nice, so MySQL was forked and became Mariadb.

I understand exactly what Mariadb is, but my company already has installs in the field using MySQL and, for a list of reasons, we want to stick with that. We're using MySQL with Devuan Jessie servers for example.

Again as I pointed out, MySQL is in fact an option in Jessie and Ascii, but it doesn't appear to be an option in Beowulf, at least as it stands now. I was hoping to find out if that's the case, or if I'm missing something. I do have the non-free option enabled for my sources, so it's apparently not related to that.

Tom

For various reasons, I'd like to install mysql-server and the mysql client etc, as apposed to mariadb, but it doesn't appear to be available, unless I'm misunderstanding something. I see that there are meta package named default-mysql-server and default-mysql-server-core, but those appear to want to pull in mariadb. Maybe I'm missing something there.

I also notice that in the https://pkginfo.devuan.org search actually has mysql-server packages for Jessie and Ascii, but not for Beowulf.

Thanks in advance!
Tom