Bug#801631: Os-prober identifies a Devuan installation as 'unknown Linux distribution'
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 (including some Debian derivatives).
Please resolve this for future versions. A simple 3-line patch to
/usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro (enclosed) has been observed
to work (by myself only so far).
David Hare
127a128,130
> elif [ -e "$dir/etc/devuan_version" ]; then
> short="Devuan"
> long="$(printf "Devuan GNU/Linux (%s)\n" "$(cat "$dir/etc/devuan_version")")"
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