Detect distro from arbitrary rootfs root_dir #161 #247
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This introduce a new optional root_dir argument to contruct a LinuxDistribution object. When provided, this is used as if it were the root of the filesystem when looking up for files. Signed-off-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
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Would you like an option?
I could not agree more. Having a global created on import here does not make sense to me https://github.com/nir0s/distro/blob/cdfe85d15bd366820db6a1cfdc6cf9a0a5de7e37/distro.py#L1189 A lot of the module api could be made simpler IMHO. |
That would be plain awesome, yes 😄 |
Also fix the root_dir arg of LinuxDistribution() to be an absolute path to the root of a filesystem and not a path to /etc Reported-by: Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org> @hartwork Signed-off-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
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@hartwork there you go the latest push has a cli option now |
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I noticed we're parsing hard-coded JSON here while then comparing high-level objects. How about removing the JSON indirection layer by going straight to Python nested dictionaries:
desired_output = {
'codename': '',
'id': 'fedora',
'like': '',
'version': '30',
'version_parts': {
'build_number': '',
'major': '30',
'minor': '',
},
}
As a side-effect, we can now re-introduce trailing commas for better diffs if those lines are touched in the future. What do you think?
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Sure, I was a tad lazy for this. !
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Why does it say 'non' here?
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That's something I carried over from the test class I subclass here https://github.com/nir0s/distro/blob/ab9d3c1fa7fcc71056700841b6a273b18af20b6d/tests/test_distro.py#L151
I scratched my head as this does not make sense. I think this is meant to be a non-existing release file, but I did not dig why you would want that. For the sake of simplicity I kept that as otherwise the tests are not behaving the same way as if you were passing no distro_release_file at all. ... which is really weird as this should not matter. @nir0s any clue?
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I dug a bit in the code as well just now: There is special handling for distro_release_file being "true" — if self.distro_release_file: — and the method _parse_distro_release_file swallows all file access errors in silence. So non seems more intentional to me now but I'd use a filename like no_such_file or so to better communicate that intention.
Using explicit named arguments when creating a LinuxDistribution makes the tests more readable than using positional unnamed arguments. Using 'path-to-non-existing-file' as a variable value for non-existing test file paths is easier to understand than a terse 'non' value. Reported-by: Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org> Signed-off-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
This is easier to read and maintain and more resilient to formatting changes. Reported-by: Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org> Signed-off-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
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@nir0s ping? Do you mind to review this? Thanks! |
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I've been away. I'll find time to review this soon. Thanks for this! |
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ping ... this is now stale.. I will rebase |
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@nir0s I updated to the latest master. |
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@nir0s If you can tell if you may or may not merge that, it would be useful. If not I will have to maintain my own fork and push it as distro2 to PyPI. |
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I see no reason not to get this in. I'll give it a look during the weekend. |
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@nir0s Thank you ++! 🙇 |
This introduce a new optional root_dir argument to contruct a
LinuxDistribution object. When provided, this is used as if it were
the root of the filesystem when looking up for files.
This also adds a --root-dir option to the command line.
This is a fix for #161
Signed-off-by: Philippe Ombredanne pombredanne@nexb.com