On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, seth vidal wrote:
> Just a heads up - the content of /etc/issue is too variable And relying
> on screenscraping for finding your repositories is NOT something I'm
> interested in doing.
OK, OK.
In config.py, add the following two lines:
def _getsysver(self):
ts = rpm.TransactionSet()
ts.setVSFlags(~(rpm._RPMVSF_NOSIGNATURES|rpm._RPMVSF_NODIGESTS))
idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', self.distroverpkg)
# we're going to take the first one - if there is more than one of the!
# then the user needs a beating
if idx.count() == 0:
releasever = 'Null'
else:
hdr = idx.next()
releasever = hdr['version']
>> distribution = hdr['name']
>> print _('distribution = %s') % distribution
del hdr
del idx
del ts
return releasever
This sets distribution to e.g. "redhat-release" on a red hat system and
"fedora-release" on a fedora system and "centos-release" on a centos
system (I tried the first two and I'm pretty confident about the third).
It does it with the same code fragment and call you're using to get the
release number itself.
I have no idea how to split off the "-release" or turn this into an
actual variable (and reading online python docs to try to figure out
how to do simple regular expression string hacking is giving me a
headache:-) but it should be pretty easy.
Is that good enough? No screen scraping, just using the actual name of
the distro-release rpm, all with naked python calls (which I had to
guess, not having any access to documentation on the idx/hdr structure)?
rgb
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