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platform.linux_distribution detects Oracle Linux as Red Hat Enterprise Linux #63412

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javawizard mannequin opened this issue Oct 9, 2013 · 8 comments
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platform.linux_distribution detects Oracle Linux as Red Hat Enterprise Linux #63412

javawizard mannequin opened this issue Oct 9, 2013 · 8 comments
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javawizard mannequin commented Oct 9, 2013

BPO 19213
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  • bpo-19213: Adding support for Oracle OS distribution in platform.py #6626
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title = 'platform.linux_distribution detects Oracle Linux as Red Hat Enterprise Linux'
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    javawizard mannequin commented Oct 9, 2013

    Tested on 3.3.2 and 2.6.6.

    On Oracle Linux, platform.linux_distribution detects the current distribution as Red Hat Enterprise Linux:

    >>> import platform
>>> platform.linux_distribution()
('Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server', '6.2', 'Santiago')

    I would have expected something along the lines of:

    >>> import platform
>>> platform.linux_distribution()
('Oracle Linux', '6.2', '')

    Or perhaps ('Oracle Linux Server', '6.2', '').

    @javawizard javawizard mannequin added stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error labels Oct 9, 2013
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    You might expect that, but platform.linux_distribution is basing its report on what is in /etc/xxx-version or xxx-release. Most likely this is an Oracle "bug", although they might be providing both their own version file and the version file for the RH release they are basing off of, in which case we could perhaps tweak the platform code to take that into account.

    Can you figure out which it is?

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    javawizard mannequin commented Oct 16, 2013

    They're providing both /etc/oracle-release and /etc/redhat-release (as Oracle Linux is based on RHEL).

    I've attached /etc/oracle-release for reference.

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    Gah. Well, by good fortune 'o' comes before 'r' in the alphabet, so it should be enough to just add 'oracle' to the list of _supported_dists in platform.py. Can you test that and confirm it?

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    javawizard mannequin commented Oct 17, 2013

    Yep, that fixes it.

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    Based on Marc-Andre recommendation at the end of bpo-11678, I plan to commit this as a bug fix, and add arch to 2.7 while I'm at it. Unless there are objections.

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    encukou commented May 25, 2018

    linux_distribution is removed in Python 3.7.
    Closing.

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    encukou commented May 25, 2018

    Er, sorry, I meant in 3.8.

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