os[:family] returns "centos" rather than "redhat" on my Centos 7.2 box

[davidcpell]

Hi all,

Pretty new to inspec so forgive me if I'm just missing something here, but I ran into an issue when writing specs with the service resource where I needed to specify service for my Ubuntu 14.04 box and sysv_service for my Centos 7.2 box (using with test kitchen).

My test:

if os[:family] == 'centos'
  describe sysv_service('zabbix_agentd') do
    it { should be_installed }
    it { should be_running }
    it { should be_running }
  end
else
  describe service('zabbix_agentd') do
    it { should be_installed }
    it { should be_enabled }
    it { should be_running }
  end
end

Note that I've had to compare against 'centos' here because that is the value being returned by os[:family] on my Centos box. However, in the docs the options that can be returned by os[:family] are:

bsd, debian, linux, redhat, solaris, suse, unix, or windows

os[:family] looks like it's meant to function like node['platform_family'] in a Chef recipe but seems to be functioning like node['platform'] for me.

InSpec and Platform Version

Inspec 0.28.0
Mac OSX 10.11.5

Replication Case

1. With centos-7.2 as a platform, $ kitchen create default-centos-72
2. Add puts os[:family] in any spec file
3. $ kitchen verify default-centos-72 will print what is being returned as the family

[chris-rock]

Thanks @davidcpell for the reporting.