cloud-init

distribution detection

Bug #1745235 reported by Robert Schweikert on 2018-01-24

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	cloud-init	Fix Released	Medium	Robert Schweikert

Bug Description

Upstream Python has deprecated platform.linux_distribution()[1] and the implementation is being removed in 3.7. This has an effect on template rendering during install and possibly other places in the code during runtime.

Options are to use an external module [2] or implement logic in cloud-init to detect the distribution.

During a brief IRC discussion on January 24th, 2018, started at 3:39:23 P.M. EST it was concluded that cloud-init should not have a dependency on the external distro module.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/platform.html#platform.linux_distribution
[2] https://github.com/nir0s/distro#distro---a-linux-os-platform-information-api

Related branches

~chad.smith/cloud-init:ubuntu/devel

Merged into cloud-init:ubuntu/devel at revision 6838d91891b31b79f06ada7253cce675d56983dc

cloud-init Commiters: Pending requested 2018-06-04

~rjschwei/cloud-init:noLnxDistro

Merged into cloud-init:master at revision bbcc5e82e6c8e87ca483150205127cb0436c4cd9

Chad Smith: Approve on 2018-05-30

Server Team CI bot: Approve (continuous-integration) on 2018-05-19

Chad Smith (chad.smith) on 2018-05-14

Changed in cloud-init:
status:	New → In Progress
assignee:	nobody → Robert Schweikert (rjschwei)
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Revision history for this message

Chad Smith (chad.smith) wrote on 2018-05-30:

An upstream commit landed for this bug.

To view that commit see the following URL:
https://git.launchpad.net/cloud-init/commit/?id=bbcc5e82

Changed in cloud-init:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Revision history for this message

Scott Moser (smoser) wrote on 2018-06-20: Fixed in cloud-init version 18.3.

This bug is believed to be fixed in cloud-init in version 18.3. If this is still a problem for you, please make a comment and set the state back to New

Thank you.