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[areq]

I have a request for developers to add the /etc/os-release file to OpenPLi. This has been a standard in Linux systems since 2012 so that it contains standardized information about the system.

 

This would be useful for simple system identification in installation scripts for additional software.

 

More information:

https://www.freedesk...os-release.html

http://0pointer.de/b...ects/os-release

[WanWizard]

Do you need anything specific in there, or is the default Yocto recipe enough?

 

btw: we are not in favour of anything being installed by scripts.

 

That is the ATV way, they are ok with god knows what being installed or scripted by god know whom, they don't seem to care about image stabilty for endusers. 99 of 100 installer scripts I see, or scripts in handmade ipks, are absolutely rubbish, and are mainly used to work around deficiencies in either the ipk or in the image. Missing depends in ipk control files is a big example.

 

For us, there is only one valid way to install something: from the supplied feed. And you get your stuff into that feed by publising your sources in a git repo so a build recipe can be made.

[areq]

no, nothing specific, just information that it's OpenPLi and its version, possibly information about the architecture

For example what I have on my router with openwrt:

# cat /etc/os-release

NAME="OpenWrt"

VERSION="23.05-SNAPSHOT"

ID="openwrt"

ID_LIKE="lede openwrt"

PRETTY_NAME="OpenWrt 23.05-SNAPSHOT"

VERSION_ID="23.05-snapshot"

HOME_URL="https://openwrt.org/"

BUG_URL="https://bugs.openwrt.org/"

SUPPORT_URL="https://forum.openwrt.org/"

BUILD_ID="r23551-5368066e9b"

OPENWRT_BOARD="ramips/mt7621"

OPENWRT_ARCH="mipsel_24kc"

OPENWRT_TAINTS=""

OPENWRT_DEVICE_MANUFACTURER="OpenWrt"

OPENWRT_DEVICE_MANUFACTURER_URL="https://openwrt.org/"

OPENWRT_DEVICE_PRODUCT="Generic"

OPENWRT_DEVICE_REVISION="v0"

OPENWRT_RELEASE="OpenWrt 23.05-SNAPSHOT r23551-5368066e9b"

[WanWizard]

I know what it looks like on other distro's, I'm using linux since 1997 .

 

I'll see what standard OE can produce, don't want to spend much time on it, most images already have all this info, in /usr/lib/enigma.info, in a standardized and parseable format.

[areq]

sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.

I've been using Linux since 1997/98 too, God, I'm so old but I didn't know about /usr/lib/enigma.info. Thanks.

 

however, /etc/os-release is also useful as a general standard.

[WanWizard]

Not offended, no worries.

 

Soon we'll be the only people still alive who know what a keyboard is.... .

 

enigma-info is an info file standardized between all image makers, specifically for dealing with image-specific code. You can find the docs here: https://github.com/O...NIGMAINFOVALUES

[Pr2]

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Edited by Pr2, 30 December 2024 - 14:43.

[littlesat]

What kind of scripts are you targeting to use on an enigma2 box what needs this?

Edited by littlesat, 30 December 2024 - 14:47.

[areq]

I am writing a simple script that detects external readers and suggests which packages to install depending on the system.

 

I thought it would be cool if openpli, like any other Linux distribution, provided this information in /etc/os-release

[littlesat]

What information do you need there (at the minimum)?

[WanWizard]

I doubt information about external readers is in /etc/os-release, and also, as external readers are handled at the OS level, the are distro independent, we're all running OpenEmbedded.

[areq]

I'm just answering @littlesat's question about what I'm going to do it has nothing to do with the contents of /etc/os-release. 

 

It would be nice to simply have /etc/os-release with the information that it's openPli in for example version 9  (similarly to how I check if my script is running on Debian or Redhat).

Only this.

 

NAME="OpenPLi"

VERSION="9.0-release"

ID="openpli"

ID_LIKE="openembedded"

PRETTY_NAME="OpenPLi 9.0-release"

VERSION_ID="9.0"

HOME_URL="https://openpli.org/"

[WanWizard]

As said, you can get that information from /usr/lib/enigma.info, on any more or less recent Enigma distro.

[WanWizard]

I've run a test build of os-release, and in its current state it is useless for your purpose.

 

The OE recipe creates an ARCH all package, with only this

[wanwizard@batman] $ cat os-release 
ID=openpli
NAME="openpli"
VERSION="scarthgap"
VERSION_ID=scarthgap
PRETTY_NAME="openpli scarthgap"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:openembedded:openpli:scarthgap"

I'm not going to spend time diving into this and creating a customized version, for data that can already be retrieved in a standardized way.
 

[areq]

it's OK - thanks!