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aitor · Other Issues

Sailor17 wrote:

Also commenting out the SWAP part in FSTAB didn't help.

Did you try replacing its <options> from defaults or sw to noauto instead of commenting out the line in /etc/fstab? For example:

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
UUID=17dcf181-b71d-4f1c-918d-2d3fff480d85 none swap noauto 0 0

With noauto, the device can be only mounted explicitly.

Reload fstab:

# mount -a

aitor · Documentation

Sailor17 wrote:

Does anyone managed to compile a version 5.X Kernel in Devuan?

Yes, compiled linux-libre-5.9.9 some time ago:

http://packages.gnuinos.org/gnuinos/pool/main/l/linux/

Unfortunately I struggled in configuration using nconfig with error message:
/bin/sh: 1: flex: not found. See below.
root@devuan:/usr/src/linux-5.10.30# make nconfig

UPD scripts/kconfig/nconf-cfg
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/nconf.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/confdata.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/expr.o
LEX scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.c
/bin/sh: 1: flex: not found
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:9: scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.c] Fehler 127
make: *** [Makefile:603: nconfig] Fehler 2
root@devuan:/usr/src/linux-5.10.30#
Any help is appreciated.
This is also an important step for me to learn compile Kernel and Programs, because I'm not willing to use the monstrous systemd distributions and like to contribute in development with Devuan. My be we start to continue this documentation with Major Kernel Updates.
Best regards Hans

That's right, you need to install both flex and bison. But..., what's the problem installing flex?

aitor · Forum Feedback

welcome to d1g!

aitor · Devuan Derivatives

JWM-Kit wrote:

I do know that I have lots of improvements planned for the kit. I now have a much brighter vision of what JWM Kit should be. Lots of changes to come and it will be good.

Keep up the good work!

aitor · Desktop and Multimedia

Pix3l wrote:

The file /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf is not part of the deb package, it's generated by pulseaudio, and even by uncommenting or set to true autospawn, I experienced the same problems.

The file /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf is inherit to the package. Uncompress the debian folder and you'll find it there.

aitor · Other Issues

dzhigit wrote:

also, this is unrelated but while chrooting into debian, I noticed package init now depends on systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core? where did runit-init go?

init, sysvinit and sysvinit-core will be removed from de system; however, sysvinit-utils and init-system-helpers will remain together with some new packages like runit, runit-init and getty-run.

aitor · DIY

Done:

https://www.gnuinos.org/Devuan%20Drafts/

The image contains three extra packages non existent in devuan:

libnetaid: shared library for simple-netaid

snetaid: daemon for simple-netaid

simple-netaid-cdk: ncurses interface for simple-netaid

One clarification: shortly simple-netaid will be compatible with both ifupdown and ifupdown2 (an alternative for ifupdown written in python and including some additional features), but it breaks with ifupdown2 so far because, even being their commands very similar, some arguments differ from eachother. In the case of simple-netaid, this breaking is due to the differences between the arguments used for the ifquery command.

The desktop environment is xfce, and you don't need any password during live sessions.

aitor · DIY

PengouinPdt wrote:

I use currently Devuan Ceres.
But I dont known how to create an ISO system.
Any documentation? suggestion?

I build all the images of gnuinos using the live-sdk. But why Ceres and not Chimaera? Ok... One could say that unstable branch is less subject to change compared to testing. Anyway, the point is that I compile both debian-installer and syslinux from source and It would seem, though, that they need some workaround in chimaera/ceres. For instance, in chimaera syslinux requires a patch pulled from ceres in order to build with gcc-10:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=957858

not to mention some missing builddeps like python-is-python2 | python-is-python3.

But still, if people are willing to get images of Ceres, I can build them continuing on the subject of the mailing list I opened time ago, and named "Devuan Drafts" (or something similar?)

aitor · Devuan

Now I have made following new config for aptly which includes all components by default without specifying them explicitly :

#aptly mirror show devuan-ascii                                                                                                                                                                    

Name: devuan-ascii                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Archive Root URL: https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/                                                                                                                                                                                           
Distribution: ascii                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
Components: main, contrib, non-free, raspi, beaglebone, droid4, n900, n950, n9, sunxi, exynos                                                                                                                                                     
Architectures: i386, amd64, armhf                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
Download Sources: yes                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Download .udebs: no                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Last update: never                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Information from release file:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
Architectures: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 ppc64el                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
Codename: ascii                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Components: main contrib non-free raspi beaglebone droid4 n900 n950 n9 sunxi exynos                                                                                                                                                                                            
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 03:30:13 UTC                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
Label: Devuan                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Origin: Devuan                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
Suite: oldstable                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Valid-Until: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 03:27:17 UTC
Version: 2.1

Raspi, Beaglebone, Sunxi (Allwinner) and so on... aren't Components, but low-power computers with ARM processors, each of them using its own linux kernel flavor. Am i wrong at this point?

On the other hand, isn't the config file of aptly defined in JSON format?

aitor · Devuan

If you don't specify -force-architectures, then aptly will treat Multi-Arch packages including them in both devuan-i386-ascii and devuan-amd64-ascii at the same time, I guess. The following should work:

aptly -force-architectures -architectures="all" mirror create devuan-all-ascii https://archive.devuan.org/merged/ ascii main
aptly mirror update devuan-all-ascii

aitor · Devuan

fsmithred wrote:

I think this is a howto for setting up amprolla locally. It's in Spanish. I know for a fact that aitor is running amprolla to merge his own packages in gnuinos.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2405
HTH

This howto needs an update.

aitor · Devuan Derivatives

zapper wrote:

Is it using both runit and runit-init?
I love that combo and am using it on my x230 thinkpad, and yes it is faster than openrc.

It does use both runit and runit-init, but most of the services are still managed in the classic way.

zapper wrote:

I would love to see Gnuinos be like a deblobbed devuan like trisquel is for ubuntu, only ten thousand fold better. trisquel still has a lot of freedom issues, rust, java and redhat's bs services.

Yes, the freedom flaws related with rust and cargo due to IceCat, as you know from the Hyperbola forum.

aitor · Devuan Derivatives

I recently pushed the code of the live-sdk used for the builds of gnuinos to git:

https://gitea.devuan.dev/aitor_czr/live-sdk/

I added some dialogs in order to do the Simple Distro Kit more user-friendly, but i'm still working on the README.md file.

As a quick start:

1) Clone the git repository:

$ git clone https://git.devuan.org/aitor_czr/live-sdk.git

2) Install the build dependencies:

# apt-get install zsh cgpt xz-utils gzip schroot debootstrap curl rsync squashfs-tools sudo debmirror \
reprepro wget xorriso isolinux rpl dialog sed cpio syslinux grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-ia32-bin

3) Go to the parent directory and run (as root):

$ cd live-sdk
$ sudo su
# zsh -f
# source sdk
# load

Now, some dialogs will ask you for your needs. In order to avoid issues related with the already existent blends and possible missing packages, choose the following options for your first attempt:

Operating system: Gnuinos

Blend: gnuinos-ob/gnuinos-ob.blend (or whatever you want)

Release: stable

Sections: main

Architecture: i386

Flavor: 686

4) At this point you can build the system by running:

# build_iso_dist

But i recommend you to use the mainmenu dialog instead:

# mainmenu

and run each step one by one in the same order they appear (have a look at the image attached in the README.md file):

https://gitea.devuan.dev/aitor_czr/live … inmenu.png

Quote: if you are under x86_64, then you can choose either i386 or amd64 architectures

Hope this helps

aitor · Devuan

mckaygerhard wrote:

the problem is that DVA (devuan veterant administrators bla bla bla ) are so experts.. so improvement.. so great..

This is not the first time you use this tone referring to the administrators.

aitor · Other Issues

I've got it working time ago:

http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2405

This howto is in spanish because i wrote it for the developers of EterTics (Argentina). It may be a bit obsolete, but you can find there the configuration I used.
On the other hand, you don't need to remove apache2. Stopping it is enough.

By the way, SteveT has a tutorial about nginx in his website:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nginx/

aitor · Off-topic

Besides Devuan and derivatives:

- Hyperbola
- Void Linux

aitor · Off-topic

You can also use gtk-ssh-askpass from the repo of gnuinos. Add the following line to your sources.list:

deb http://packages.gnuinos.org/merged beowulf main

Download and install gnuinos-keyring:

$ wget https://packages.gnuinos.org/gnuinos/pool/main/g/gnuinos-keyring/gnuinos-keyring_2020.05.03_all.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i gnuinos-keyring_2020.05.03_all.deb

Update the repository and install the mentioned package afterwards:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install gtk-ssh-askpass

From there you'll be able to run graphical applications as root by typing (in this example, for the case of synaptic):

$ gkt-askpass synaptic

Keep in mind that /usr/bin/gtk-askpass restricts the use of /usr/sbin/gtk-ssh-askpass to a few applications. By default:

case $1 in
	pcmanfm|thunar|synaptic|gparted|bleachbit)
		SUDO_ASKPASS=/usr/sbin/gtk-ssh-askpass sudo -A $1
		;;
	*) ;;
esac

But you can edit this file as root and add/remove whatever you want. If you want to narrow it only to synaptic and gparted, for instance, then you may leave it as follows:

case $1 in
	synaptic|gparted)
		SUDO_ASKPASS=/usr/sbin/gtk-ssh-askpass sudo -A $1
		;;
	*) ;;
esac

Gtk-ssh-askpass is installed by default in the images of gnuinos beowulf:

https://www.gnuinos.org/Beowulf/

Here you are a screenshot:

gtk-ssh-askpass screenshot

aitor · Devuan

According to the configuration of amprolla, Chimaera will be always an alias of Bullseye:

aliases = {

    'DEBIAN-SECURITY': {
        'chimaera-security': 'bullseye/updates',
    },
    'DEBIAN': {
        'chimaera': 'bullseye',
        'chimaera-updates': 'bullseye-updates',
    },
}

but, during this period, Testing will remain being the release_alias of Chimaera (despite being bullseye stable):

release_aliases = {

    'chimaera': {
        'Suite': 'testing',
        'Codename': 'chimaera',
        'Version': '4.0',
    },
    'chimaera-security': {
        'Suite': 'testing-security',
        'Codename': 'chimaera-security',
    },
    'chimaera-updates': {
        'Suite': 'testing-updates',
        'Codename': 'chimaera-updates',
    },
}

Due to this confusion, it's recommended the use of the codename over the suite in the sources.list, as golinux has pointed out several times.

aitor · Devuan Derivatives

Only VM images are available, and the filesystem is splitted into a couple of wmdk files. A possible workaround would be to attach the image to a virtual machine using refracta-snapshot afterwards in order to generate a bootable iso image which could be upgraded from debian to devuan; or, if you prefer so, to upgraded the hosted system before the remastering.

On the other hand, Whonix seems to recommend the use of the stock kernel of debian buster in the hosting side, the same used in devuan beowulf. Regarding the posibility of borrowing the hardened kernel from Whonix, it's inspired by Kernel Self Protection Project (KSPP) and a debian package already exists for that:

https://github.com/Whonix/security-misc

Despite of some features depend on systemd (which might affect only to the capabilities of systemd itself, i don't know), i can't see any dependency related with it in the control file.

aitor · Devuan Derivatives

Hi,

I'm uploading new images of gnuinos:

https://www.gnuinos.org/Beowulf/

Here you are a screenshot:

https://www.gnuinos.org/screenshots/202 … _scrot.png

Gnuinos is using runit as init system.

aitor · Devuan Derivatives

fsmithred wrote:

Refracta no-dbus build (experiment)
wpasupplicant \ # get libdbus-1-3 here

I recently debianized wpasupplicant without libdbus, so that simple-netaid will run without any dependency on dbus.

aitor · Off-topic

Panopticon wrote:

Hi aitor, i will have to try your popupmenu, thanks.

You can test it in live mode downloading the following experimental image:

gnuinos.org/gnuinos jessie

Sakura (the terminal by default), or whatever you want, will not work in live mode (only in live mode). This issue is due to vdev. But you'll be able to run it as root:

$ gksudo sakura

After that, you can return to the mortal user:

# su gnuinos

I still didn't fix this bug. After a hard disk installation, the terminal works.

As it uses runit insted of sysvinit, shutdown the system by the following way:

# runit-init 0

Cheers.

aitor · Off-topic

Panopticon wrote:

Replaced xfce4 panel with tint2 and added jgmenu for the menu. I much prefer tint2 as a panel, to me it has a lot more avenues for styling than xfce4 panel. Jgmenu is brilliant and has come a long way, i urge you to try it out with tint2.

I didn't know about jgmenu. I was working on another dynamic menu, using also the libmenu-cache (like jgmenu seems to be doing):

https://git.devuan.org/aitor_czr/popupmenu

aitor · Documentation

I finished it.

It only remains how to patch other git repositories using the git-format-patch, and also how to do the pinning of apt in favour of linux-libre.

aitor · Hardware & System Configuration

You can restore the grub using a live image. Run it and type:

cat /proc/partitions

You will get all the existent partitions sda1, sda2, sdd1,... Create a directory:

mkdir /tmp/mnt

and mount the first partition:

mount /dev/sda1 /tmp/mnt

You can see the content of this partition typing:

ls /tmp/mnt

If it contains the /boot directory you hit the target. In this case, you will be able to restore the grub by the following way:

grub-install --root-directory=/tmp/mnt /dev/sda

Otherwise, umount the partition:

umount /tmp/mnt

and try with another one.

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