[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#499854: Bug#499854: closed by Michael Meskes

[Michael Meskes]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:18:05PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> That's also a completly random way to do it, that'd going to fail in
> oddball situations. For example, what if someone puts Ubuntu sources
> entries in a Debian system temporarily?

If you have Ubuntu sources configured you might install Ubuntu packages which
makes the check work. After all there is but one reason for this, to make sure
an Ubuntu dir does not have an effect on a pure Debian system.

However, what I failed to see was that /etc/apt/sources.lst is not the only way
to configure apt sources, so yes, I need to change this.

> Is there something wrong with /etc/debian_version?

Yes:

michael at feivel:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
lenny/sid
michael at feivel:~$ cat /mounts/ubuntu/etc/debian_version
lenny/sid

There simply is no difference there. :-)

Michael
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