distro module uses /etc/os-release file which contains operating system
identification data, see os-release(5). Given that the mechanism doesn't
use `rpm` it should be possible to generate man pages on other
distributions.
Signed-off-by: Petr Lautrbach <lautrbach@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
python/sepolicy/sepolicy/__init__.py | 25 ++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/python/sepolicy/sepolicy/__init__.py b/python/sepolicy/sepolicy/__init__.py
index 9c3caa05b80b..baa4c8e62e97 100644
--- a/python/sepolicy/sepolicy/__init__.py
+++ b/python/sepolicy/sepolicy/__init__.py
@@ -1226,27 +1226,14 @@ def boolean_desc(boolean):
def get_os_version():
- os_version = ""
- pkg_name = "selinux-policy"
+ system_release = ""
try:
- try:
- from commands import getstatusoutput
- except ImportError:
- from subprocess import getstatusoutput
- rc, output = getstatusoutput("rpm -q '%s'" % pkg_name)
- if rc == 0:
- os_version = output.split(".")[-2]
- except:
- os_version = ""
-
- if os_version[0:2] == "fc":
- os_version = "Fedora" + os_version[2:]
- elif os_version[0:2] == "el":
- os_version = "RHEL" + os_version[2:]
- else:
- os_version = ""
+ import distro
+ system_release = distro.name(pretty=True)
+ except IOError:
+ system_release = "Misc"
- return os_version
+ return system_release
def reinit():
--
2.38.1
