On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 at 16:04, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Quoting Luca Boccassi (2025-08-14 16:48:15) > > On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 at 07:15, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Also: this is just addressing how to fix the problem going forward. The > > > more > > > pressing fix (I think) is to think about how to fix existing installations > > > which have the wrong /etc/os-release because of this. > > > > > > Somebody (and not me within the next few days because I'm attending my > > > brother's wedding on the weekend) would have to come up with a clever > > > postinst > > > script to clean up the mess and then get that into the next point release > > > and > > > hope that users uprade their Bookworm before upgrading to Trixie... > > > > This is not clever but does the job: > > > > if dpkg-divert --list /etc/os-release | grep -q os-release.debootstrap; then > > dpkg-divert --quiet --local --remove --no-rename /etc/os-release > > rm -f /etc/os-release > > ln -s ../usr/lib/os-release /etc/os-release > > fi > > thank you! > > > However, the main problem is where to have it - I just checked a calamares > > installation, and there's no live-* packages unfortunately. > > > > Is there any calamares-specific package that is installed in these rootfses? > > I cannot confirm. Did you install using calamares from a Debian Live CD of > Bookworm?
No, it was trixie/stable from https://www.debian.org/CD/live/ > I have these live-* packages installed on my disk after installing from Debian > Live using Calamares: > > live-boot, live-boot-doc, live-boot-initramfs-tools, live-config, > live-config-doc, live-config-systemd, live-task-base, live-task-gnome, > live-task-localisation, live-task-localisation-desktop, live-task-recommended, > live-tools > > Thanks! > > cheers, josch
