On Wed 04 Nov 2015 at 22:56:42 (+0200), David Baron wrote: > So, I easily edited the text in /etc/issue to something more to my liking. > This is just text, no meaning. > > Watching a cmake session, I noticed the distribution being called, you > guessed > it: Kali ... > > Found another file: ~$ cat /etc/os-release > PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux 2.0 (sana)" > NAME="Kali GNU/Linux" > ID=kali > VERSION="2.0 (sana)" > VERSION_ID="2.0" > ID_LIKE=debian > ANSI_COLOR="1;31" > HOME_URL="http://www.kali.org/"; > SUPPORT_URL="http://forums.kali.org/"; > BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.kali.org/"; > > Actually a symlink to /usr/lib/os-release > > So where did I get this?
dpkg -S <filename> shows that they both belong to the "base-files" package. > Do I need it? That depends on the applications you run which might read it. > If I do, what should it be for Debian Sid? Take a look at its "base-files". Whether installing it is useful depends, I guess, on how much your installation actually looks like sid, and how much any differences matter. > I had Kali's repos but installed none of their packages. > I recall some script with a text-mode menu for treating some of their > security > packages but I never installed any of them. Script might have touched to two > files (be there any others??) Cheers, David.
