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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 34154@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#34154] [PATCH] /etc/os-release
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:20:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190123072017.GA6135@macbook41> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y37cjruq.fsf@gnu.org>

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On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:38:05PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> 
> > Currently GuixSD ships without an '/etc/os-release' file. This simple
> > service aims to correct this.
> 
> I’m not very enthusiastic.  :-)
> 
> I think /etc/os-release is a hack and the primary motivation behind it
> was (I believe) to allow proprietary programs to make assumptions on the
> file system layout, available services, etc. based on the distribution
> running.
> 
> WDYT?  Did you encounter situations where lack of this file was causing
> problems?
> 

I found a man page online from freedesktop.org¹, it seems that it's been
aborbed by systemd at some point. It looks like some build systems can
try to get information from it during building if they have
distro-specific things to do. 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.

That said, I'm happy enough to plop it in my own os-config and drop the
patch.

¹https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-23  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-21 10:17 [bug#34154] [PATCH] /etc/os-release Efraim Flashner
2019-01-22 21:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-23  7:20   ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2019-01-23  9:59     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-23 11:37       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-23 14:32         ` ng0
2019-01-25  8:42           ` Ludovic Courtès
     [not found] <36-bJau0GXybxv0BCxV-3SwgyEOOpj8KkmW1cRyfydTJzckzhn2zBRx8qNWri1qfgek9BgNRoZFA8pYKtdABNNnMnrBWTPvc2e1-dOYB5Yw=@protonmail.com>
2021-08-06  3:06 ` Maxim Cournoyer

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