I hope I did this maillist reply correctly. I am doing it with webmail, not an email client.
> libpam-systemd depends systemd-sysv. libpam-systemd also depends > systemd. Devuan's libpam-elogind provides libpam-systemd but conflicts with > systemd which must be removed first. > > However, to get systemd uninstalled we first have to replace systemd-sysv with > sysvinit-core (leaving systemd installed) and reboot. systemd and elogind > conflict so we cannot use libpam-elogind to replace libpam-systemd *yet*. > > This is the point we need a transitional package to temporarily satisfy > libpam-systemd's systemd-sysv dependency whilst the system is rebooted. > > After reboot, systemd is no longer PID1 so can be removed and we can then > complete the transition replacing libpam-systemd with libpam-elogind, removing > systemd and installing elogind. > > I hope that is clearer. > I can get the general grasp of this information as I think a similar shim was used in devuan when it was first forked. What I found to get sysvinit-core installed was to -boot into the debian install, and before changing the sources list to point to devuan, -run "apt install sysvinit-core" then, alter the sources.list to point to beowulf and, "apt update" "apt upgrade" "reboot" No errors were noted and upon a reboot, sysvinit is running as PID1 and the migration can continue in a manner similar to what it has been in the past. Trying to install sysvinit-core after the sources.list pointed to beowulf caused many problems and I never could get it done that way. I documented my test migration of a buster Xfce install at: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=17716#p1771<https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=17716#p17716>6<https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=17716#p17716>
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