On Wednesday 04 November 2015 16:35:57 David Wright wrote: > 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.
This package is no longer on the repos!! > > Do I need it? > > That depends on the applications you run which might read it. cmake, for one. But that is not on the list. Removing base-files will ... Remv rsync [3.1.1-3] Remv lib32nss-mdns [0.10-6] Remv libnss-mdns-i386:i386 [0.10-6] Remv libnss-mdns:i386 [0.10-6] Remv libnss-mdns [0.10-6] Remv base-files [1:2.0] [bsd-mailx:amd64 dpkg-dev:amd64 bash:amd64 ] Remv foomatic-db-engine [4.0.12-2] [bsd-mailx:amd64 dpkg-dev:amd64 bash:amd64 ] Remv bash-completion [1:2.1-4.2] [bsd-mailx:amd64 dpkg-dev:amd64 bash:amd64 ] Remv bash [4.3-14] [bsd-mailx:amd64 dpkg-dev:amd64 ] Remv bsd-mailx [8.1.2-0.20150408cvs-1] [dpkg-dev:amd64 ] Remv build-essential [12.1] [dpkg-dev:amd64 ] Remv dh-make [1.20150601] [dpkg-dev:amd64 ] Remv debhelper [9.20151005] [dpkg-dev:amd64 dh-strip-nondeterminism:amd64 ] Remv dh-strip-nondeterminism [0.013-1] [dpkg-dev:amd64 ] Remv dpkg-dev [1.18.3] So for a package that is no longer there, quite a problem! > > 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. So, now what :-)
