Add support for Arch Linux to platform.linux_distributions()

[westleymartinez]

BPO	11678
Nosy	@malemburg, @birkenfeld, @terryjreedy, @pitrou, @merwok, @bitdancer
Files	cpython-11678.diff: patch

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title = 'Add support for Arch\tLinux to platform.linux_distributions()'
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[westleymartinez]

This comes from bpo-11340 <http://bugs.python.org/issue11340\>.

Adding support for Arch Linux to platform.linux_distributions() will allow a distutils test to be skipped for Arch. The Arch Linux website: http://www.archlinux.org/

[malemburg]

Please provide a patch for review.

Thanks.

[westleymartinez]

Patch.

[westleymartinez]

I forgot to say, Arch Linux is rolling release so it doesn't have a version or id.

[malemburg]

Westley Martínez wrote:

Westley Martínez <anikom15@gmail.com> added the comment:

I forgot to say, Arch Linux is rolling release so it doesn't have a version or id.

Ok, but then what's the output of the function on Arch Linux (with the
patch) ?

[westleymartinez]

('arch', '', '')

[malemburg]

Westley Martínez wrote:

Westley Martínez <anikom15@gmail.com> added the comment:

('arch', '', '')

I've had a look at http://www.archlinux.org/download/ which does list
a release version (currently 2010.05).

Could you try to get that into the function's output for Arch Linux ?

Thanks,

Marc-Andre Lemburg
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[westleymartinez]

That's the release version for the installation disc.

[westleymartinez]

Perhaps I wasn't clear. That release version isn't for the system. It's for the installation disc. There's no way to get that info and it means nothing to anyone anyways. All users of Arch are expected to have their system fully up to date. There are no releases; Just do "pacman -Syu" and the system is made up to date.

[terryjreedy]

If today's multi-site message is not a joke, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, Grml, and openSUSE are about to be joined into the Canterbury distribution.

[birkenfeld]

And we all laughed :)