Hi all,

can I exclude a mirror from being used? I have the problem that apt always queries 2001:4ca0:4300::1:22, which leads to http://debian.bio.lmu.de/debian/pool/main/ being used. This mirror apparently has problems, as I often – not always – get errors about files not being found.

When I set the nameserver to e.g. 8.8.8.8 in /etc/resov.conf, another mirror is used, and installation of packages or updating works.

So: Can I exclude a specific mirror from being used?

Thanks for all help!

Hi All :-)

I'm about to migrate a server from Gentoo to Devuan. As a Gentoo user, I of course want to use OpenRC :-)

However, I couldn't start Radicale using the shipped init script /etc/init.d/radicale. Nothing happened. No error, no syslog entry, nothing.

I thus tried to use Gentoo's init script:

#!/sbin/openrc-run
# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

PIDFILE=/run/radicale.pid

depend() {
        need localmount
}

start() {
        ebegin "Starting radicale"
                start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background \
                --user radicale \
                --umask 0027 \
                --stderr-logger /usr/bin/logger \
                --pidfile ${PIDFILE} --make-pidfile \
                --exec /usr/bin/radicale
        eend $?
}

stop() {
        ebegin "Stopping radicale"
                start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \
                --pidfile ${PIDFILE}
        eend $?
}

Which also didn't work out of the box – but after having removed the "depend" function and the "--stderr-log" argument, I actually did start Radicale. On the first start, I got "Error: radicale is the name of a real and virtual service.", but it did start. After restarting it, that error was also gone.

I tried to reproduce what the original init script did before writing this, but interestingly, I now get an error using it:

Starting Radicale CalDAV server : radicaleusage: radicale [OPTIONS]
radicale: error: unrecognized arguments: --daemon
 failed!

I'm pretty sure this wasn't there before I tried to use the Gentoo init script …

All this is a bit strange. Is this the "handwork" that would be necessary when using OpenRC, as the installer told me? I never used anything else than OpenRC, so I am not used to sysvinit init scripts …

Thanks for all info!

Hi forum :-)

I'm about to set up some machines previously run by Gentoo using Devuan. I was very happy to see that, in the Debian universe, there are also some sane people not using systemd ;-)

Obviously, I chose OpenRC as the init system. But now, I have a few questions about it, esp. as the installer states that there was some manual configuration to do using OpenRC. This is definitely not a problem for a Gentoo user though.

First I cleaned up some stuff I don't need, e.g. the brltty, saned, ofono etc. But their init scripts remained in the respective runlevel after the packages were removed, interestingly, the symlinks still pointed to existing scripts. So I ran rc-update del ... to also remove the init scripts.

Is this the "manual configuration" I have to do when using OpenRC on Devuan? And why are the packages not removed completely? (Sorry if this is some normal behavior on Debian based systems; for almost 20 years now I have been using nothing else than Gentoo)

The other thing is: What about OpenRC's network configuration capabilities? Through OpenRC's netifrc module, one can setup all kinds of network connections, and this is especially useful for wired connections. No need for any daemon to run, just a setup in /etc/conf.d/net, a symlink to /etc/init.d/net.lo, and adding it to the default runlevel and you're done.

But there's neither /etc/conf.d, nor /etc/init.d/net.lo.

So: Is this supported and/or intended to be used on Devuan?

Thanks for all clarification!