Adds LinuxMint

[JJ]

Adds LinuxMint, which is basically a copy of Ubuntu. Previously Mint yielded "Not supported OS" or suchlike. Thanks to @toblerone554 for hint.

[Tweaki]

Can one of the admins verify this patch?

[ferki]

@JJ: thanks for the contribution! I believe there wouldn't be much obstacles to add LinuxMint support as it is really a Debian/Ubuntu clone AFAIK - and tackling the package management is definitely a good first step towards it!

I think we should look into and consider handling at least the following additional parts of the full story:

• services management
• adding Mint as Debian clone for hardware gathering, maybe?
• possibly adding is_linuxmint function or similar
• adding a LinuxMint VM image to build.rexify.org to be able to run automated functional tests

[JJ]

Could give it a try, of course, but first thing first. Should I start with the last and proceed upwards?

[ferki]

@JJ: feel free to proceed in any order you find comfortable :) For the VM image, you can find some guidelines in RexOps/rex-build#3. Should you have any questions, feel free to ask here or in our IRC channel!

ps.: I just noticed you used your clone's master branch with this pull request. Of course it's also a matter of taste and personal workflow preferences, but generally we recommend creating a feature branch, as that can make things easier. We can try to follow this as it is now. Also there are some contribution guidelines on the website you might be interested in.

[JJ]

Great, will do.

2014-12-10 19:00 GMT+01:00 Ferenc Erki [email protected]:

@JJ https://github.com/JJ: feel free to proceed in any order you find
comfortable :) For the VM image, you can find some guidelines in
RexOps/rex-build#3 RexOps/rex-build#3. Should
you have any questions, feel free to ask here or in our IRC channel!

ps.: I just noticed you used your clone's master branch with this pull
request. Of course it's also a matter of taste and personal workflow
preferences, but generally we recommend creating a feature branch, as that
can make things easier. We can try to follow this as it is now. Also there
are some contribution guidelines http://rexify.org/contribute on the
website you might be interested in.

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[ferki]

This issue looks like abandoned, but we decided to try to add Linux Mint support by recognizing it as an Ubuntu clone (which might be even easier to implement than writing hardware gathering and service/package management abstractions).

[ferki]

@JJ: this has been solved via merging #745. Thanks for your help around realizing this feature!