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

Package: base-files; Maintainer for base-files is Devuan Developers <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for base-files is src:base-files.

Reported by: David Reviejo <dreviejo@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 20:48:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 10.3+devuan3.4

Done: fsmithred <fsmithred@gmail.com>

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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

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

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