From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: 34154@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#34154] [PATCH] /etc/os-release
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:59:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8dzheyp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190123072017.GA6135@macbook41> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:20:18 +0200")
Hello,
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> I found a man page online from freedesktop.org¹, it seems that it's been
> aborbed by systemd at some point.
OK.
> It looks like some build systems can try to get information from it
> during building if they have distro-specific things to do.
That is precisely the kind of bad practice that I’d rather not
encourage. :-)
> 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.
It has other problems:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix environment -C --ad-hoc inxi-minimal -- inxi -S
sh: tty: command not found
Can't exec "ps": No such file or directory at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 17535.
Use of uninitialized value in split at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 17535.
Can't exec "ps": No such file or directory at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 3052.
Use of uninitialized value in split at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 3052.
Can't exec "ps": No such file or directory at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 17535.
Use of uninitialized value in split at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 17535.
12System: 12Host ribbon 12Kernel 4.20.3-gnu x86_64 12bits 64 12Console N/A 12Distro unknown
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> That said, I'm happy enough to plop it in my own os-config and drop the
> patch.
OK, let’s take that route.
That said, I’m clearly opinionated ;-), but if that turns out to be a
hindrance to many, we can revisit this issue.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-23 10:00 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
2019-01-23 9:59 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-01-23 11:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-23 14:32 ` ng0
2019-01-25 8:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
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2021-08-06 3:06 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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