Devuan will be repo for EasyPak

I posted yesterday about the genesis of EasyPak, my take on "universal packages":

http://bkhome.org/news/201806/applying-the-kiss-principle-to-universal-packages.html

I decided to use the Devuan "ascii" repository for building the universal packages. I have created script /usr/local/EasyPak/create_db and a repository spec file /usr/local/EasyPak/DISTRO_COMPAT_REPOS-devuan.

It works, creates the Puppy-format package files in /usr/local/EasyPak, for "main", "contrib" and "non-free". Script create_db can be rerun at any time in a running EasyOS to update these db files.

EasyOS "Pyro" series is built from packages compiled in my fork of OpenEmbedded. That is, a distro compiled entirely from source. However, the "universal packages" will be constructed from Devuan DEBs. This does not matter, as that is the whole idea of universal packages, that they will run on any Linux distro. Implementing this will be "proof of the pudding".

The next step... taking a break, will think about that later.

Tags: easy