No comment anyone?
Ok then. I guess I will have to test it myself later on.
For those with the same objective, I decided to keep my PC and 2 VPS' at
the current Debian Testing packages, but striped systemd and its
components as much as possible. There are still files especially on
/etc/systemd, /lib/systemd and /var/lib/systemd but the only package
matched with *systemd* is libsystemd0. It is currently at version
215-11. I pinned Package: *systemd* to Pin-Priority: -1 to make sure
that they will not be pulled back again. I hope everything will still
work with regular weekly update before I switch to Devuan.
On 16/02/15 21:16, Anto wrote:
Hello Everybody,
I am not sure if this was due to a principle reason or ego, but I
really want to have a Debian-like OS that is free of any systemd and
its related packages. I just want to have a freedom to choose the
packages that I want to use, instead of being forced to use the one
and only. So I am preparing to switch my notebook and 2 of my Xen VPS'
from Debian into Devuan.
My notebook is currently running on Debian Jessie. It switched into
systemd sometime last year after I did dist-upgrade. When I tried to
roll that back, I ended up in dependencies hell. So I thought I keep
it while I am waiting for LMDE2. Sorry, I didn't know about Devuan
until about 2 months ago, hence the thought. But in any case, I don't
have any issue to clean install it later on.
I am more concerned with my 2 Xen VPS'. One of them is still running
on Debian Wheezy and the other one on Debian Jessie. As you know, even
on Debian Wheezy, some important packages are already locked into
systemd, e.g. dbus and udev. So I am thinking to downgrade them to
Debian Squeeze as my VPS providers still provide the image for that.
I will possibly have to recompile some of the packages to have the
same versions as the ones that I currently use. I just mainly need
nginx, php5 and sqlite3 packages. But I am not really sure yet what
problems will I get if I would recompile them in Debian Squeeze. Some
required libraries might be too old for the new versions.
So I really appreciate any advices to be able to smoothly upgrade my
VPS' to Devuan later on.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Kind regards,
Anto
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