On 24/12/16 00:17, fsmithred wrote:
On 12/23/2016 05:42 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:56:58AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
I installed jessie-beta on a disk some time ago, and off hand it boots
and runs just fine. However I didn't migrate it to from my current Debian
Wheezy because I was waiting for the eudev/vdev/udev issue to be
resolved, figuring that migrating up from present udev to one of the
others could well be traumatic. I didn't want to do it on a system
on which I relied for work.

Two questions, if I may:

Is eudev being actively worked on, and is it likely to be in
the upcoming  non-beta Jessie Devuan?
vdev was/is being developed by a Devuan user specifically with Devuan in
mind.  eudev, as others have already stated, is a Gentoo project.  I'm
not sure the status of vdev.

It has been packaged, and it works. (i.e. It works for me and a few
others. If more people try it, then it will work for more people.)

Here are vdev packages made by Ralph Ronnquist:
https://git.devuan.org/ralph.ronnquist/vdev/tree/master/release

Here are vdev packages made by Aitor:
http://packages.gnuinos.org/pool/main/v/vdev/

I should add that the two sets of packages are probably not compatible
with each other. Pick one.

Here's a live-CD iso I made with a sparse devuan install with openbox wm
and...  vdev. I used Ralph's deb packages for this build, and I only made
an amd64 iso. It's already isohybrid, so you can dd or cat it to a usb stick.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/files/experimental/jessie-vdev2-20161013_0159.iso

-fsmithred

Hello fsmithred and everybody,

As fas as I understood, a proper debian package must have the debian packaging files, i.e. the debian directory and its files, so that people can compile and test it on any supported platforms. So I don't believe that vdev has been properly packaged so far as I cannot find any debian packaging files either on https://git.devuan.org/unsystemd/vdev/tree/master or https://git.devuan.org/ralph.ronnquist/vdev/tree/master. Or perhaps I am out of date on the packaging approach used in Devuan. But I believe Devuan still follows the same packaging method as Debian.

For me, I will be more confident to install a package that has never been packaged before, when I can successfully compile it under my environment using dpkg-buildpackage. Especially for device manager packages, I have to be very careful as the chances to break my PC is quite high. At the first stage of vdev development, I always broke my test PC until I decided to stop testing and just wait for a vdev package with debian packaging files available.

So is there anywhere I can find the debian packaging files of vdev?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Anto

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