@@ -390,7 +390,26 @@ function GetDistro {

     elif [[ "$os_VENDOR" =~ (kvmibm) ]]; then

         DISTRO="${os_VENDOR}${os_RELEASE::1}"

     else

-        die $LINENO "Unable to determine DISTRO"

+        # We can't make a good choice here.  Setting a sensible DISTRO

+        # is part of the problem, but not the major issue -- we really

+        # only use DISTRO in the code as a fine-filter.

+        #

+        # The bigger problem is categorising the system into one of

+        # our two big categories as Ubuntu/Debian-ish or

+        # Fedora/CentOS-ish.

+        #

+        # The setting of os_PACKAGE above is only set to "deb" based

+        # on a hard-coded list of vendor names ... thus we will

+        # default to thinking unknown distros are RPM based

+        # (ie. is_ubuntu does not match).  But the platform will then

+        # also not match in is_fedora, because that also has a list of

+        # names.

+        #

+        # So, if you are reading this, getting your distro supported

+        # is really about making sure it matches correctly in these

+        # functions.  Then you can choose a sensible way to construct

+        # DISTRO based on your distros release approach.

+        die $LINENO "Unable to determine DISTRO, can not continue."

     fi

     typeset -xr DISTRO

 }