http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997614 Bug ID: 997614 Summary: python's platform.linux_distribution() doesn't understand /etc/os-release Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: Current Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Development Assignee: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: tserong@suse.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: ---
cat /etc/SuSE-release cat: /etc/SuSE-release: No such file or directory
cat /etc/os-release NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed" # VERSION="20160831" ID=opensuse ID_LIKE="suse" VERSION_ID="20160831" PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed" ANSI_COLOR="0;32" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20160831" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org" HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"
python -c 'import platform ; print platform.linux_distribution()' ('', '', '')
That's odd. Python doesn't know what distro we're running on. But, on an earlier Tumbleweed release:
cat /etc/SuSE-release openSUSE 20160701 (x86_64) VERSION = 20160701 CODENAME = Tumbleweed # /etc/SuSE-release is deprecated and will be removed in the future, use /etc/os-release instead
cat /etc/os-release NAME=openSUSE VERSION="Tumbleweed" VERSION_ID="20160701" PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed (20160701) (x86_64)" ID=opensuse ANSI_COLOR="0;32" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:20160701" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org" HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/" ID_LIKE="suse"
python -c 'import platform ; print platform.linux_distribution()' ('openSUSE ', '20160701', 'x86_64')
Turns out the file matching in /usr/lib64/python2.7/platform.py (line 323+) is looking for files named /(\w+)[-_](release|version)/, so it picks up "os-release", and decides _distname is "os", which *isn't* in _supported_dists (_supported_dists includes "SuSE", "debian", "fedora", etc. but no generic "os"). So, as we apparently no longer ship SuSE-release, and there's no other release-like files to parse, and we end up with platform.linux_distribution() having no idea what's going on. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.