Devuan bug report logs - #424
Wrong ID in os-release?

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Package: base-files
Version: 10.3+devuan3.4

I'm using devuan beowulf, but some utilities, like screenfetch or
lsb_release, think it's debian. For example:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf)
Release:        3
Codename:       beowulf

I think we need
    ID=devuan
in /usr/lib/os-release.

Cheers,
-- 
David

Message #8 received at 424@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

David,

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:27:37 +0200 David Reviejo <dreviejo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: base-files
> Version: 10.3+devuan3.4
> 
> I'm using devuan beowulf, but some utilities, like screenfetch or
> lsb_release, think it's debian. For example:
> 
> $ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Debian
> Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf)
> Release:        3
> Codename:       beowulf
> 
> I think we need
>     ID=devuan
> in /usr/lib/os-release.

Thanks for this.

This is a conscious decision in beowulf as a work around for various debian bugs
that couldn't be resolved in other ways.

For ceres and chimaera this has already been changed. See
https://bugs.devuan.org/411

Mark

Message #11 received at 424@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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David,

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 09:45:43 +0100 Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> wrote:
> This is a conscious decision in beowulf as a work around for various debian bugs
> that couldn't be resolved in other ways.
> 
> For ceres and chimaera this has already been changed. See
> https://bugs.devuan.org/411

We are testing whether we can change this for the first point release of
beowulf. An updated base-files package is available in the
beowulf-proposed-updates suite or directly from the pool[1].  Please would you
test it and report success or any new issues.

Thanks.

Mark

[1]  http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/b/base-files/base-files_10.3%2Bdevuan3.5_all.deb

Message #18 received at 424@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

* Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> [2020-06-03 16:50]:
> We are testing whether we can change this for the first point release of
> beowulf. An updated base-files package is available in the
> beowulf-proposed-updates suite or directly from the pool[1].  Please would you
> test it and report success or any new issues.
> 
> [1]  http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/b/base-files/base-files_10.3%2Bdevuan3.5_all.deb
> 

I think this version it's Ok; screenfetch and lsb_release now report the
correct distribution. Even (after updating grub), grub prints "Devuan
GNU/Linux" at boot.

Cheers,
-- 
David

Message #23 received at 424-close@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Package: base-files

Fixed in base-files 10.3+devuan3.5  (in Beowulf 3.1.0)

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