Subject: Re: Wrong ID in os-release?

From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 09:45:43 +0100

David,

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:27:37 +0200 David Reviejo <[email-masked]> 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