ALERT Incredible PBX 13-13 for Devuan Ascii?

[Ryushin]

I'm currently setting up Incredible PBX 13-13 on Ubuntu 18.04. You also have an installer for Centos 6. But it has got me wondering if you can do a release on Devuan Ascii for those that want a Debian system without systemd. Since Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS 7 have moved to systemd, it would be nice to have a recent distro without systemd. BTW, if you make an installer for Debian 9/Stretch, it will probably work just fine on Devuan, as long as the appropriate sysvinit scripts are installed.

 

[hecatae]

So Devuan is currently Excalibur:

Migrate from Debian Trixie to Excalibur | Devuan GNU+Linux Free Operating System

Free GNU+Linux base OS. Devuan is a fork of Debian without systemd. Devuan provides a safe upgrade path from Debian, to ensure the right to Init Freedom and avoid entanglement.

www.devuan.org

Above is the guide to convert Debian 13 Trixie to Excalibur, which then the IncrediblePBX 2026 install should be able to run on and we would then have IncrediblePBX on Devuan.

 

[wardmundy]

WARNING: Incredible PBX is now a fully-integrated systemd platform. The install script would need some serious reworking as it makes numerous systemctl calls. And there are numerous instances in the platform, once installed, where it makes systemctl calls. For example, see /etc/rc.local. See also /etc/systemd/system for all the components that would have to be reworked. Bottom line: I don't think this would be worth the effort for less than a handful of users. But it's an open source project so feel free to dive in if you have some spare time on your hands.

 

[hecatae]

devuan-sanity

Helpful packages for the Devuan system

git.devuan.org

devuan-sanity-systemctl​

Written by bgstack15, this package introduces a systemctl translator script that turns systemctl acalls into service and update-rc.d commands.

 

[wardmundy]

But why? Do we really want to go back to the CentOS 6 days??

 

[hecatae]

But why? Do we really want to go back to the CentOS 6 days??

what's wrong with OpenRC?