On Wednesday 10 January 2024 at 17:38:59, dng@??? wrote:

> On 10-01-2024 17:18, Antony Stone wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > Does anyone know if there's a reasonably reliable way to tell whether a
> > Devuan machine was installed as Devuan, or was installed as Debian and
> > then upgraded?
>
> I check the contents of /var/lib/apt/cdroms.list which in my case
> reflects install because it is the only time I use an iso image.

Hm:

a) I didn't previously know about that file

b) the first machine I want to check (which was installed by someone else, and
I can't ask them) doesn't even have that file (although I have found it on
other machines)

I'd be interested if anyone knows of other tell-tale signs which can show
(perhaps traces of Debian which a Devuan upgrade doesn't remove?) how a
machine came to be running Devuan.


Thanks,


Antony.
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