Re: [Dng] Looking for advices in preparation to switch from Debian to Devuan

2015-03-01 Thread Anto
On 24/02/15 17:08, Anto wrote: Here is what I plan to do: 1. Re-install Xen DomU image of Debian squeeze 2. Add the following files: # cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/blocksystemd Package: *systemd* Pin: origin "" Pin-Priority: -1 # # cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/77norecommends APT:

Re: [Dng] Looking for advices in preparation to switch from Debian to Devuan

2015-02-24 Thread Anto
On 24/02/15 11:26, Didier Kryn wrote: Hello Anto. I have used Nginx on Squeeze and I am pretty sure it was missing extras. I had to compile and install all Nginx and php-fpm packages from a third party repository to have it - I wanted to use the PAM module as intermediate to Kerberos auth

Re: [Dng] Looking for advices in preparation to switch from Debian to Devuan

2015-02-24 Thread Anto
On 24/02/15 00:32, Nuno Magalhães wrote: On wheezy i don't see nginx-extras depending on udev or any systemd*. I don't have jessie but i couldn't trace any dependencies on packages.debian.org either. Where did you see these dependencies? Can you apt-rdepend them? The closest i could find was ngin

Re: [Dng] Looking for advices in preparation to switch from Debian to Devuan

2015-02-24 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 23/02/2015 20:15, Anto a écrit : What is not clear to me is that, what will happen to udev or all systemd related packages that are currently required by nginx-extras and php5-fpm for instance? Will I need to do certain tweak or will switching the repository to Devuan and do dist-upgrade be

Re: [Dng] Looking for advices in preparation to switch from Debian to Devuan

2015-02-23 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Anto wrote: > What is not clear to me is that, what will happen to udev or all systemd > related packages that are currently required by nginx-extras and php5-fpm > for instance? On wheezy i don't see nginx-extras depending on udev or any systemd*. I don't have je

Re: [Dng] Looking for advices in preparation to switch from Debian to Devuan

2015-02-23 Thread Anto
Hello Nuno, Thanks a lot for your comment. Yes. I am aware that Devuan is not ready yet. My question was about the preparation to switch from Debian to Devuan, whether I should stay on the testing packages (and keep updating weekly), downgrade to wheezy or even downgrade to squeeze. But I n

Re: [Dng] Looking for advices in preparation to switch from Debian to Devuan

2015-02-23 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Anto wrote: > No comment anyone? Actually, i didn't see your first post... For Debian, you could try, as a hack, to install either and older wheezy or squeeze, pin stuff and upgrade. There are also docs laying around for stippping systemd from wheezy to varying d

Re: [Dng] Looking for advices in preparation to switch from Debian to Devuan

2015-02-22 Thread Anto
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/system

[Dng] Looking for advices in preparation to switch from Debian to Devuan

2015-02-16 Thread Anto
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