Hey Guys!
Before going forward with Devuan, I would like to be able to Fork
Debian by myself.
Why? Because of, let me say, the Scientific Method. I need to
reproduce this entire "Debian fork procedure", so I can contribute
back.
At first, I was thinking about a "draft procedure", like this:
1- Install Debian Jessie;
2- Run:
mkdir debianfork ; cd debianfork
for X in `grep ^Package: /var/lib/apt/lists/*source* | awk '{print $2}'`;
do echo apt-get source $X; done
3- Recompile everything;
4- Make new APT Repo with reprepro;
5- Profit!
But, of course, this seems to be very simpler an it is just a "one
time fork", without any kind of Continuous Integration... But it might
work!
Then, I have a few questions, for example:
1- How Canonical keep syncing with Debian every six months? Will
Devuan follow this "Debian syncing" that Ubuntu does (or something
similar)?
2- "Chicken and Egg" problem: Which package should I compile first?
Libc? Linux? KfreeBSD? *-baseconf ? D-I?
3- I'm seeing that Devuan's first package is `devuan-baseconf` but,
why? Sorry about newbie question... Is there something special about
it?
At first, I was thinking about first, fork entire Debian as-is, then,
start modifying it but, it seems that the first Devuan that we might
see, will be already a modified Debian, am I right?
Do not lose focus, can someone help me with my "Debian Fork
Procedure"? The community deserves to know that, step-by-step.
Best!
Thiago
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