OK, So I've thought about this.... It seems that its not feasible to expect only one /etc/*-release or any file describing the distribution. As M0E Lnx said, most derivatives will have more than one. Detecting using the * symbol is also too unreliable, and cannot handle multiple matches easily.
I've attached report-ng, which hopefully should reliably detect every distro listed on this page http://gambasdoc.org/help/doc/distro?en&view, including Vector (not currently listed). Its similar to the os-prober script, except its much much easier to add support for detection of more distributions. Its a good idea to place derivative distributions before the distro that they are based on in the script, so that those locations are checked first, and it doesn't, for example, report Vector as being Slackware, because the script found slackware's version file first and so stops looking. This script also finds the path to the gambas executables, and suppresses error messages making it into the output file. It might also be handy to ask the user if the script is unable to identify the distro properly, and send the data back to whoever maintains this for adding detection in. Please test this if you can... -- joshua higgins >>>>>>------
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