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[bug#34154] [PATCH] /etc/os-release
From: |
Efraim Flashner |
Subject: |
[bug#34154] [PATCH] /etc/os-release |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:20:18 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.11.0 (2018-11-25) |
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:38:05PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> 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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