[SOLVED] Converting/rebranding one distro to another

[GarryRicketson]

That's good, when I saw what you said about the grub "menu entry" I was going to comment that I didn't think it would effect the boot.

I still can't rest until I figure out where "Tanglu" is coming from when lsb-release is deleted.

Don't know,... What do you get if you run ? :

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locate tanglu 

or "Tanglu" , I would try both, the lower case and upper case T.
It might give you some clue,

[RWIndiana]

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# locate Tanglu
/usr/share/python-apt/templates/Tanglu.info
/usr/share/python-apt/templates/Tanglu.mirrors

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# locate tanglu
/etc/tanglu-kde-default-settings
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/80tanglu-xmodmap
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/tanglu-archive-keyring.gpg
/etc/dpkg/origins/tanglu
/etc/tanglu-kde-default-settings/directory-home
/etc/tanglu-kde-default-settings/directory-media
/etc/tanglu-kde-default-settings/hidden-media
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tanglu-kde-settings.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tanglu-kde-settings.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tanglu-theme-kde.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tanglu-theme-kde.postrm

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# cat /etc/dpkg/origins/
debian   default  tanglu   
root@Confluence:/etc# cat /etc/dpkg/origins/default 
Vendor: Tanglu
Vendor-URL: http://www.tanglu.org/
Bugs: http://tracker.tanglu.org/
Parent: Debian
root@Confluence:/etc# cat /etc/dpkg/origins/tanglu 
Vendor: Tanglu
Vendor-URL: http://www.tanglu.org/
Bugs: http://tracker.tanglu.org/
Parent: Debian
root@Confluence:/etc# cat /etc/dpkg/origins/debian 
Vendor: Debian
Vendor-URL: http://www.debian.org/
Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org
root@Confluence:/etc# rm /etc/dpkg/origins/tanglu 
root@Confluence:/etc# cp /etc/dpkg/origins/debian /etc/dpkg/origins/default 
root@Confluence:/etc# lsb_release -i
Distributor ID: Debian

Well then . . . that did it! Thanks!

Obviously there's some cruft files left over that should be purged, but now I can sleep. Very cool.. Thanks ya'll for putting up with me, hopefully you don't feel this was a waste of your time.

[RWIndiana]

From what I remember, there were at least a couple other files in /etc that could be hiding Tanglu. You could look for a file with version in the name in that directory, or start doing a recursive grep in that folder for the "tanglu" string. Rpl in the repos is a cool terminal command that goes through any numbers of text files and replaces strings with one of your choice, so maybe you can turn that loose on your whole root directory and replace the string with "Debian".

Hey thanks, I did find a few more things that way.

[Thorny]

Rod,

You only posted one of the GRUB files I mentioned.

... Although /boot/grub/grub.cfg is back to saying "Tanglu".

We still haven't heard exactly where on the GRUB boot menu you see Tanglu.

But. you don't need to post the whole thing!

For example my menuentry line is:

menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-1156556c-394f-4917-b146-ac896aad7cbf' {

Does yours look like that, or something similar, or something different?

Is it on the menuentry line when the menu choices are presented at boot that you see Tangu?

Did you ever answer if you are using stock Debian kernel or not? Or, maybe I forgot to ask that question.

Thanks ya'll for putting up with me, hopefully you don't feel this was a waste of your time.

Rod, I'd guess that anyone still participating wouldn't feel like it was a waste of time. It's pretty much what we are here for and successes are always satisfying. Collaborating with people who think is satisfying.

[RWIndiana]

It used to say this:

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menuentry 'Tanglu GNU/Linux' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-ec358438-b9cc-4f0e-a689-5fd2a1b15d5a' {

But, with changing the /etc/dpkg/origins/default file (or creating a custom lsb-release which apparently overrides that file), it now says:

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menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-ec358438-b9cc-4f0e-a689-5fd2a1b15d5a' {

I do believe I have the stock kernel:

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# apt policy linux-image-amd64
linux-image-amd64:
  Installed: 4.14+89
  Candidate: 4.14+89
  Version table:
 *** 4.14+89 500
        500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Thorny]

So I assume, you no longer see Tangu at the GRUB menu. Great, it seems your issues are solved.

It has the potential of helping others with similar issues if you prepend [Solved] to the subject line of your original post.

Nice working with you and future good luck.

[RWIndiana]

Done, and thanks again!