Bug#801631: Os-prober identifies a Devuan installation as 'unknown Linux distribution'

[David Hare <davidahare@gmail.com>]

On 12/10/15 21:50, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> David Hare <davidahare@gmail.com> (2015-10-12):
> > 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")")"
>
> Thanks, but please use diff -u or git format-patch. Having the context
> around is always a good idea; having a patch ready to apply even more so.
>
> Mraw,
> KiBi.

My apologies for not using diff -u .. updated patch enclosed, hope that 
helps better. Thanks for taking note of this issue.

David

--- /home/user/90linux-distro_orig	2012-11-27 02:02:01.000000000 +0000
+++ /home/user/90linux-distro_new	2015-10-07 16:00:11.469011017 +0100
@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@
 	elif [ -e "$dir/etc/meego-release" ]; then
 		short="MeeGo"
 		long="$(head -1 "$dir/etc/meego-release")"
+	elif [ -e "$dir/etc/devuan_version" ]; then
+		short="Devuan"
+		long="$(printf "Devuan GNU/Linux (%s)\n" "$(cat "$dir/etc/devuan_version")")"
 	else
 		short="Linux"
 		long="unknown Linux distribution"