update-motd.d/10-help-text has an incomplete check for ubuntu server systems

[Brian Murray]

Binary package hint: base-files

I'd just finished installing ubuntu-server i386 and was surprised to discover that after logging in I was presented with a link to help.ubuntu.com instead of www.ubuntu.com/server. This is because the help text script is just looking for '-server' in the output of uname and there is no -server kernel for i386.

From 10-help-text:

URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
if uname -r | grep -qs "\-server"; then
 URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/server/doc"
fi

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

One way to handle this might be to the following:

elif uname -r | grep -qs "\-pae" && grep -qsi "server" /var/log/installer/media-info; then
        URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/server/doc"
fi

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Please can we instead consolidate the documentation, and remove this client-side conditionalisation which I don't think can ever really be made correct?

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

This bug should be closed (obsoleted) by the fix to Bug #1592386