Re: r48657 - in trunk/packages/os-prober: debian os-probes/init/common
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:58:27AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > - Tighten check for whether we're running in d-i; anna-install isn't
> > quite enough because if you're running d-i code outside d-i it's
> > sometimes reasonable to install a shim for anna-install.
>
> > - if type anna-install >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> > + if type anna-install >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -d /lib/debian-installer ]; then
>
> This still feels very ad-hoc.
Hmm, it seems pretty safe to me. Something in /etc would be just as good
though; I don't really mind.
> What about looking for DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux
> installer" in /etc/lsb-release? Or are derived distros changing that?
Ubuntu certainly changes that - in fact for us it's just a copy of the
regular /etc/lsb-release because I was trying to reduce the number of
things we had to change when opening a new release.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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