Debian Bug report logs - #801631
Os-prober identifies a Devuan installation as 'unknown Linux distribution'

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

From: David Hare <davidahare@gmail.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Os-prober identifies a Devuan installation as 'unknown Linux distribution'

Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:39:37 +0100

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Package: os-prober
Version: 1.65
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

When invoking 'update-grub' an installation of Devuan on another 
partition is identified by os-prober as 'unknown Linux distribution'. It 
does have an /etc/devuan_version file. By contrast, os-prober supports 
detection of other OS's (including some Debian derivatives).

Please resolve this for future versions. A simple 3-line patch to 
/usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro (enclosed) has been observed 
to work (by myself only so far).

David Hare

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Message #10 received at 801631@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>

To: David Hare <davidahare@gmail.com>, 801631@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#801631: Os-prober identifies a Devuan installation as 'unknown Linux distribution'

Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:50:00 +0200

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Hi,

David Hare <davidahare@gmail.com> (2015-10-12):
> Package: os-prober
> Version: 1.65
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> When invoking 'update-grub' an installation of Devuan on another partition
> is identified by os-prober as 'unknown Linux distribution'. It does have an
> /etc/devuan_version file. By contrast, os-prober supports detection of other
> OS's (including some Debian derivatives).
> 
> Please resolve this for future versions. A simple 3-line patch to
> /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro (enclosed) has been observed to
> work (by myself only so far).
> 
> David Hare

> 127a128,130
> > 	elif [ -e "$dir/etc/devuan_version" ]; then
> > 		short="Devuan"
> > 		long="$(printf "Devuan GNU/Linux (%s)\n" "$(cat "$dir/etc/devuan_version")")"

Thanks, but please use diff -u or git format-patch. Having the context
around is always a good idea; having a patch ready to apply even more so.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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Message #15 received at 801631@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: 801631@bugs.debian.org, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>, David Hare <davidahare@gmail.com>

Subject: Re: Bug#801631: Os-prober identifies a Devuan installation as 'unknown Linux distribution'

Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:38:35 +0200

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On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:50:00 +0200 Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> David Hare <davidahare@gmail.com> (2015-10-12):
> > Package: os-prober
> > Version: 1.65
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: patch
> > 
> > When invoking 'update-grub' an installation of Devuan on another partition
> > is identified by os-prober as 'unknown Linux distribution'. It does have an
> > /etc/devuan_version file. By contrast, os-prober supports detection of other
> > OS's (including some Debian derivatives).
> > 
> > Please resolve this for future versions. A simple 3-line patch to
> > /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro (enclosed) has been observed to
> > work (by myself only so far).
> > 
> > David Hare
> 
> > 127a128,130
> > > 	elif [ -e "$dir/etc/devuan_version" ]; then
> > > 		short="Devuan"
> > > 		long="$(printf "Devuan GNU/Linux (%s)\n" "$(cat "$dir/etc/devuan_version")")"
> 
> Thanks, but please use diff -u or git format-patch. Having the context
> around is always a good idea; having a patch ready to apply even more so.

Instead of increasing this list even further, wouldn't it be better to
simply rely on /etc/os-release and actually remove most of
/usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro ?

-- 
Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the
universe are pointed away from Earth?

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Message #20 received at 801631@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>

To: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

Cc: 801631@bugs.debian.org, David Hare <davidahare@gmail.com>

Subject: Re: Bug#801631: Os-prober identifies a Devuan installation as 'unknown Linux distribution'

Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:44:59 +0200

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Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> (2015-10-13):
> Instead of increasing this list even further, wouldn't it be better
> to simply rely on /etc/os-release and actually remove most of
> /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro ?

Feel free to investigate whether all distros listed there ship
/etc/os-release but that cost seems higher than just adding stuff
people discover are missing for their specific arch.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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Message #25 received at 801631@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tianon Gravi <admwiggin@gmail.com>

To: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>, 801631@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>, David Hare <davidahare@gmail.com>

Subject: Re: Bug#801631: Os-prober identifies a Devuan installation as 'unknown Linux distribution'

Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:55:34 -0700

On 12 October 2015 at 15:38, Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote:
> Instead of increasing this list even further, wouldn't it be better to
> simply rely on /etc/os-release and actually remove most of
> /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro ?

See also #794409 for a bug/patch that adds os-release support (which
I'm definitely a fan of -- "os-release" is supported in a huge number
of distros I have the misfortune of dealing with).

♥,
- Tianon
  4096R / B42F 6819 007F 00F8 8E36  4FD4 036A 9C25 BF35 7DD4

Message #30 received at 801631@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Hare <davidahare@gmail.com>

To: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>, 801631@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#801631: Os-prober identifies a Devuan installation as 'unknown Linux distribution'

Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:47:36 +0100

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On 12/10/15 21:50, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> David Hare <davidahare@gmail.com> (2015-10-12):
>> Package: os-prober
>> Version: 1.65
>> Severity: normal
>> Tags: patch
>>
>> When invoking 'update-grub' an installation of Devuan on another partition
>> is identified by os-prober as 'unknown Linux distribution'. It does have an
>> /etc/devuan_version file. By contrast, os-prober supports detection of other
>> OS's (including some Debian derivatives).
>>
>> Please resolve this for future versions. A simple 3-line patch to
>> /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro (enclosed) has been observed to
>> work (by myself only so far).
>>
>> David Hare
>
>> 127a128,130
>>> 	elif [ -e "$dir/etc/devuan_version" ]; then
>>> 		short="Devuan"
>>> 		long="$(printf "Devuan GNU/Linux (%s)\n" "$(cat "$dir/etc/devuan_version")")"
>
> Thanks, but please use diff -u or git format-patch. Having the context
> around is always a good idea; having a patch ready to apply even more so.
>
> Mraw,
> KiBi.
>

My apologies for not using diff -u .. updated patch enclosed, hope that 
helps better. Thanks for taking note of this issue.

David

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Message #37 received at 801631-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: 801631-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#801631: fixed in os-prober 1.72

Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 13:04:29 +0000

Source: os-prober
Source-Version: 1.72

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
os-prober, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 801631@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (supplier of updated os-prober package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:44:34 +0000
Source: os-prober
Binary: os-prober-udeb os-prober
Architecture: source
Version: 1.72
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Description:
 os-prober  - utility to detect other OSes on a set of drives
 os-prober-udeb - utility to detect other OSes on a set of drives (udeb)
Closes: 648208 674561 698598 698733 701814 776275 784709 787418 794409 801631 803155
Changes:
 os-prober (1.72) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Improve logging of mounting and setting partitions to ro/rw (thanks, Ivo
     De Decker).
   * Use a read-only device-mapper entry if possible rather than setting the
     underlying device to read-only (thanks, Ivo De Decker; closes: #701814).
     Note that this introduces a dependency on dmsetup on Linux
     architectures.
   * Remove the "blockdev --setro" code path entirely, since the read-only
     device-mapper arrangement supersedes it and should be safer (closes:
     #648208).
   * Make os-prober-udeb depend on grub-mount-udeb on all Linux and kFreeBSD
     architectures, now that it's available on them all (thanks, James
     Cowgill; closes: #776275).
   * Make os-prober depend on grub-common on Linux and kFreeBSD, in order
     that grub-mount is consistently available.
   * Fix detection of /usr/ partition as a GNU/Linux root partition when
     /lib* directories are moved to /usr/ completely (thanks, Hedayat
     Vatankhah; closes: #698733).
   * Make the yaboot parser more tolerant about the syntax of "append"
     options (thanks, Hedayat Vatankhah; closes: #674561).
   * Disable debugging if OS_PROBER_DISABLE_DEBUG is set (thanks, Hedayat
     Vatankhah; closes: #698598).
   * Replace basename/dirname with shell string processing (thanks, Hedayat
     Vatankhah; part of #694668).
   * Call dmraid only once (thanks, Jeff Mahoney).
   * Fix typos in README (thanks, Nyav; closes: #803155).
   * Add os-release support (based loosely on a patch by Török Edwin; closes:
     #794409).
   * Add Devuan detection (thanks, David Hare; closes: #801631).
   * Work harder to avoid trying to mount extended partitions (thanks,
     Philippe Coval; closes: #784709).
   * Drop " (loader)" suffixes on Microsoft operating systems (thanks, Chris
     Lamb; closes: #787418).
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Files:
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