Hi, Quoting Roman Lebedev (2025-12-10 00:36:05) > There's https://packages.debian.org/sid/libdistro-info-perl > Should it be used to detect which distro it is?
how would it be able to do that? All we have at that point is the user arguments. And another question that I forgot to ask: is the ubuntu kernel named the same independent of the architecture? Quoting Christian Kastner (2025-12-10 00:37:50) > A cursory examination of the URIs all have "ubuntu" somewhere in their > name, so the check would return true Not true. There is https://mirror.famaserver.com/archive/ or https://mirror.maeen.sa/apt-mirror/ There are also "mis-spelling" of ubuntu like rsync://mirror.flokinet.net/ubntu/ and there are spellings with the first letter upper-case http://mirrors.arpnetworks.com/Ubuntu/ > Though not impossible, I think it very unlikely that there will be many false > positives, ie: a non-Ubuntu URI would containing "ubuntu". The test has both false positives and false negatives. It's a bad test. It is maybe a good heuristic but if one adds a heuristic to software, then one must also add a way to override it. There is also another option: convince Debian kernel maintainers to add linux-image-virtual to their list of meta-packages and let it depend on the right meta-package depending on the architecture. Then both autopkgtest-virt-qemu as well as mmdebstrap-autopkgtest-build-qemu could simplify their code and just depend on linux-image-virtual. Thanks! cheers, josch
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