Dear All and dev1fanboy, this is just to let you know that I followed your guide to upgrade my debian wheezy install and it went very well! Thank you for the great instructions. It was a really messed up old installation and the upgrade sorted it out brilliantly.
Just as a note, gnome was still there at the end of the upgrade, refusing to start. I solved it with: # apt-get purge gnome* , followed by the installation of XFCE I am (was) a long time gnome user, so it was not a easy choice, but I definitely prefer to get accustomed to a new DE / WM rather than getting accustomed to systemd. I still have to purge dbus, though..... I am sure this list is not short of italian translators, but please let me know if I could help translating the guide for wiki or for other documentation purposes. All the best. Antonio On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote: > Le 09/11/2015 05:06, Sam a écrit : > >> On 07/11/15 20:53, Didier Kryn wrote: >> >>> Le 07/11/2015 11:02, dev1fan...@use.startmail.com a écrit : >>> >>>> All that info is right as far as I can tell. >>>> >>>> gcc versions from /proc/version are labelled as debian for me too. >>>> >>>> The kernel remembers who has compiled it, when, and where. If you >>> compile it yourself you'll be pleased to see your username in >>> /proc/version. You can also add some tag to the kernel version It is >>> also possible to add some tag to the version of gcc if you compile it >>> yourself, and it will appear when you invoke 'gcc --version'. >>> >>> As long as Devuan keeps Debian packages for kernel and gcc, you're >>> going to see that they have been compiled by Debian devs. And Devuan, >>> for the moment only modifies packages which need to, in order to get rid >>> of systemd dependency. This does not involve gcc, and not yet the kernel. >>> >>> Didier >>> >>> Thanks Didier, for the advice and especially for setting me straight on >> this matter. I should have realised this before I raised it as a quirk >> or an issue; I've compiled many, many custom kernels, so I should have >> been well-aware of the process and the tweaks that are possible - and >> having played with that one in particular when customising and compiling >> kernels off-platform for the particular idiosyncrasies of the eventual >> host systems, I should have been more attentive to this. >> >> Thanks especially for dignifying my input into the discussion with your >> response. >> >> Sam >> > > Dear Sam, > > You seem experienced in embedded Linux (compiling custom kernels). > This is a field in which I gained a little experience, and this is how I > learned the most about the init process. And it is probably for this reason > that I became a Devuan fan at the beginning of this year. I guess people > must have some knowledge of init to have an opinion on how it should be :-) > > I, like you, have a great respect for the goals of the VUAs. I admire > their talent regarding both Debian and Cloud technologies. > > Didier > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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