(FACT-2492) handle elementary OS as Debian #408
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nit: are we going to do this for each distro that is based on other distros?
I think there are a lot of them that are based on ubuntu/debian, maybe we can identify them better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Debian-based_distributions
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yes, working on a POC for this. Right now it would be great if we could unstuck facter for Elementary.
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how did the old versions of facter do this mapping?
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Hi, Facter 3 is using CMAKE variable CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME (which is the result of uname -s) to differentiate at build time on which os is running. Elementary and Debian will be just 'Linux' in this case. Facter 2 is using Facter::Core::Execution.exec("uname -s").
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yes, working on a POC for this. Right now it would be great if we could unstuck facter for Elementary.
@mihaibuzgau Any ETA on this? I need to get facter working on Raspbian and could extend this yet again, but if you have a PR coming I could wait a bit for something cleaner.
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@mlove-au for the moment, please add Raspbian similar to ElementaryOS, the effort is low and you will be able to use Facter 4 with Raspbian. We are already working on the new mechanism, but it might take some time until we implement, test and release it.
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