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#34154
[PATCH] /etc/os-release
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Reported by: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 10:18:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: patch, wontfix
Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
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Hello,
Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il> skribis:
> I found a man page online from freedesktop.org¹, it seems that it's been
> aborbed by systemd at some point.
OK.
> It looks like some build systems can try to get information from it
> during building if they have distro-specific things to do.
That is precisely the kind of bad practice that I’d rather not
encourage. :-)
> The only software that I know of that we have that would use it would
> be inxi. guix environment --ad-hoc inxi-minimal -- inxi -S "Distro:
> Unknown" isn't that big of a deal, and we could just submit a patch
> upstream if we really wanted it fixed.
It has other problems:
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$ guix environment -C --ad-hoc inxi-minimal -- inxi -S
sh: tty: command not found
Can't exec "ps": No such file or directory at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 17535.
Use of uninitialized value in split at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 17535.
Can't exec "ps": No such file or directory at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 3052.
Use of uninitialized value in split at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 3052.
Can't exec "ps": No such file or directory at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 17535.
Use of uninitialized value in split at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 17535.
12System: 12Host ribbon 12Kernel 4.20.3-gnu x86_64 12bits 64 12Console N/A 12Distro unknown
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> That said, I'm happy enough to plop it in my own os-config and drop the
> patch.
OK, let’s take that route.
That said, I’m clearly opinionated ;-), but if that turns out to be a
hindrance to many, we can revisit this issue.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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