Debian bullsye image Ansible detection

Radosław Piliszek radoslaw.piliszek at gmail.com
Fri Apr 23 13:17:23 UTC 2021


On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 2:17 PM Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
>
> On 2021-04-23 15:07:45 +1000 (+1000), Ian Wienand wrote:
> > In short, Ansible reports "n/a" for ansible_distribution_release on
> > our new bullseye nodes.  This screws up our mirror setup.  This has
> > turned into quite an adventure.
> >
> > Currently, Debian is frozen to create the "bullseye" release.  This
> > means that "bullseye" is really an alias for "testing", that will turn
> > into the release after the freeze period.
> [...]
>
> The irony is that `lsb_release -c` has been returning "bullseye" on
> my sid machines for weeks, since base-files 11.1 was uploaded to
> unstable (2021-04-10).

Well, I guess it means that Ian's hack would be more than acceptable. ;-)

-yoctozepto



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