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echo: rberrypi
to: DAVID TAYLOR
from: BIG BAD BOB
date: 2019-08-26 00:08:00
subject: Re: Wheezy updates failin

On 2019-07-11 05:49, David Taylor wrote:
> On 11/07/2019 12:18, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 11/07/2019 12:13, Roger Bell_West wrote:
>>> On 2019-07-11, David Taylor wrote:
>>>> Yes, I know wheezy is out of date, but....
>>>
>>> If you're sticking with wheezy, which has now been removed from the
>>> primary archives as it's no longer even old-old-stable... why are you
>>> looking for updates? There probably won't be any.
>>>
>> He wants  a new image
>
> No, I am chasing an issue which appears to affect only older OS
> versions, and these won't have been updated in the last couple of years.
>   As these RPi cards are in use, rather than for playing, I prefer to
> see whether simply updating the OS to its latest patch level might
> affect the issue.
>

if systemd is your reason for not wanting stretch, perhaps you can
dist-upgrade to a newer devuan distro... ?

(I know _I_ dislike systemd, so I can totally understand)



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