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

2015-10-13 Thread David Hare
On 12/10/15 21:50, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, David Hare (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/devu

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

2015-10-12 Thread Tianon Gravi
On 12 October 2015 at 15:38, Michael Biebl 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 (whic

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

2015-10-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Biebl (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 c

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

2015-10-12 Thread Michael Biebl
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:50:00 +0200 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > David Hare (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 'unknow

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

2015-10-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, David Hare (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,

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

2015-10-12 Thread David Hare
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