[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Issue Comment Edited: (JBIDE-7268) usage reporting does report ubuntu linux as debian

[Andre Dietisheim (JIRA)]

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Andre Dietisheim edited comment on JBIDE-7268 at 10/6/10 10:24 AM:
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it looks like it is not reliable to check for the lack of a /etc/lsb-release file (to distinguish it from ubuntu). Debain may also have a /etc/lsb-release file. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444678

      was (Author: adietish):
    it looks like it is not reliable to check for debian if it has no /etc/lsb-release (to distinguish it from ubuntu). Debain may also have a /etc/lsb-release file. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444678
  
> usage reporting does report ubuntu linux as debian
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>
>                 Key: JBIDE-7268
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-7268
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: usage
>    Affects Versions: 3.2.0.M2
>            Reporter: Andre Dietisheim
>            Assignee: Andre Dietisheim
>             Fix For: 3.2.0.Beta2
>
>
> The usage reporting plugin currently recognizes Ubuntu linux as debian. This is wrong and should be corrected.
> The reason is the following:
> - the recogintion code checks the presence of certain files:
> /etc/lsb-release for Ubuntu
> and /etc/debian_version for Debian.
> - Debian is checked before Ubuntu, so it finds /etc/debian_version and thinks the Ubuntu distro is a debian distro. 
> - Furthermore this file contains no numerical verison (contains "squeeze/sid") in it, so Ubuntu distros get reported as Debian without version.

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