Two issues:
1) I have several Debian boxes running as kiosks, and reporting to a
centralized Quest-branded "Systems Management Appliance" (SMA). With a
recent update to the SMA, the Debian boxes stopped reporting in. After
several weeks, I finally discovered that the installation of
"lsb-compat" on several of them restored their functionality. Today,
when I go to install "lsb-compat" on the other's, I find it's no longer
available in Buster. Has it been deprecated? Why? Any ideas how I'm
going to get my boxes reporting again to the SMA (what does "lsb-compat"
do, that maybe I can duplicate manually, etc?)? I thought maybe
"lsb-release" might do the same thing, as the basic problem is that the
SMA's client piece on the Debian boxes had stopped finding the version
of Debian installed on the box, which broke the reporting process. When
I installed "lsb-compat", the SMA client piece could once again detect
the Debian version.
2) When I compare two of my Debian boxes (set up at different times and
probably in slightly different ways), I find that the
/etc/apt/sources.list files are functionally identical (with no extras
in the sources.list.d directory), but when I do an "aptitude search lsb"
on each, they give different results. Huh? That doesn't make sense to
me. For completeness:
root@lib-pac-04:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main
contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main
contrib non-free
# stable-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main contrib
non-free
----
root@lib-pac-04:~# aptitude search lsb
p liblist-utilsby-perl - higher-order list utility functions
p liblist-utilsby-xs-perl - XS implementation of List::UtilsBy
i lsb-base - Linux Standard Base init script functionality
i lsb-release - Linux Standard Base version reporting utility
r
====
root@mcg-pac-03:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main
contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main
contrib non-free
# stretch-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main contrib
non-free
----
root@mcg-pac-03:~# aptitude search lsb
p liblist-utilsby-perl - higher-order list
utility functions
p liblist-utilsby-xs-perl - XS implementation
of List::UtilsBy
v lsb -
i lsb-base - Linux Standard
Base init script functionality
i lsb-compat - Linux Standard
Base Compatibility
v lsb-core -
i A lsb-release - Linux Standard
Base version reporting utility
Thanks!
--
Kent
