On Tue, Jun 07, 2011, Bradley Powers wrote: > This indicates that ROS can't determine the OS. I suspect that this is > because Linaro calls itself Linaro, not Ubuntu (which is what the image > is). Any ideas on how to get Linaro to call itself Ubuntu, or to get > ROS to understand that Linaro means Ubuntu?
Linaro images include a modified base-files package which sets up lsb-release configs with "Linaro" instead of "Ubuntu". You're likely seeing the effect of lsb_release output being Linaro according to /etc/lsb-release instead of Ubuntu. One way this could be handled by ROS (or any ISV really) is to use the new "dpkg-vendor" tool to check whether the current distro has a known distro as a parent. For instance "dpkg-vendor --derives-from Debian" succeeds under Ubuntu, and "dpkg-vendor --derives-from Ubuntu" or dpkg-vendor --derives-from Debian" should succeed under a Linaro image. Unfortunately, dpkg-vendor is in dpkg-dev, so maybe one nee to parse /etc/dpkg/origins/* manually instead. In the mean time, you can downgrade base-files or edit its conffiles locally. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
