% bunsen-os-release(5) User Manual % J. John twoion@bunsenlabs.org % Version %VERSION%
bunsen-os-release - Operating system and vendor identification
/etc/os/release
/etc/lsb-release
/etc/dpkg/origins/bunsenlabs
BunsenLabs ships its own OS identification files as part of the bunsen-os-release package, which are located in their standard paths as described in fsg(1) (part of the Linux Standard Base) and os-release(5) (part of the systemd configuration environment). The purpose of these files is to provide third-party programs with information about the OS such as name, distribution, and version.
os-release(5) in particular also allows for declaring the operating system family, in the sense of BunsenLabs being derived from Debian. Programs which use this information include for example the GRUB bootloader, which installs a boot menu with operating system selection options, or package management software.
BunsenLabs preserves the original Debian OS information files. bunsen-os-release only defers the existing files to their BL editions. If it is desired to restore the system identification to plain Debian GNU/Linux, simply uninstalling the package is sufficient:
apt-get purge bunsen-os-releaseThis removal doesn't have any side effects on other parts of the BunsenLabs system configuration.
Some third-party software fails to function as expected with the BunsenLabs identification files in place, most notably software dealing with package management.
An often appearing case is the software-properties-{gtk,kde} tool set, another example is the NodeJS package manager npm. These applications break since they hard-code distribution names like Debian or Ubuntu and disregard unknown names, as well as distribution relationships as defined by os-release(5).
Install the package bunsen-python-apt-template in order to accomodate this kind of software.
os-release(5), fsg(1), lsb_release(1), deb-origin(5)