I once wrote a script as PoC to list build dependencies:

I'm not in the VyOS core team so I'm not able to make direct decisions on the resolution, but as I see it, there are several possible ways to approach this.

I'd like to know what the long term plan is here. How are "small time" developer supposed to be able to build the kernel related packages? I was in the middle of testing some change to wireguard, but now everything is on hold because I can't build the current kernel anymore without a significant effort. I'm open to help but I would need to know what the plan is for builds without Jenkins.

https://github.com/vyos/vyos-build/pull/84

See https://github.com/vyos/vyos-build/pull/58 for what I think is the fix.

Build Docker container two times on different machines (Linux host and macOS host) ... no problems detected. closing this.

Can't reproduce the issue using commit 217aa6afaeb of vyos-build repo

Pull request created: https://github.com/vyos/vyos-build/pull/43

man strace(1) indicates that it opens several system files until it gets a match for any known distro.

Another way is to check in /etc/os-release, but that is also a changeable file.... Wondering where lsb_release reads it from ( no pc atm, so cannot check)

@LiquidLight there is a Dockerfile, too to build VyOS

Issue file con be overwritten. lsb_release -d would be a better way, as it gives you Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.11 (jessie)

no progress here, either must be dropped or picked up by someone