I was wrong about CentOS 7.1 not being available...it is now the CentOS
version you can get on AWS, as of fairly recently. I am about to test it
now.
On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 3:18:40 PM UTC-6, Joanna Delaporte wrote:
>
> Interestingly, my ubuntu laptop also responds with just "Linux" to the
> platform.system() call.
>
> Unfortunately, it appears that I cannot get CentOS 7.1 yet on AWS...I
> think Gregswift mentioned that worked for him today. I could test it next
> week at work with a physical install to identify the issue further, if
> that's helpful.
>
> On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 3:10:19 PM UTC-6, Joanna Delaporte wrote:
>>
>> HI Brian,
>>
>> Thanks! Both hosts had the same responses. Here's the result:
>>
>> >>> print(platform.system())
>> Linux
>> >>> print(platform.linux_distribution())
>> ('CentOS Linux', '7.0.1406', 'Core')
>> >>> print(platform.dist())
>> ('centos', '7.0.1406', 'Core')
>>
>> So, if the module is first looking at platform.system and taking any
>> answer it receives, the only answer the module receives from this
>> distribution version is "Linux".
>>
>> On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 1:41:24 PM UTC-6, Brian Coca wrote:
>>>
>>> the 'magic' gets done in the load_platform_subclass, which matches the
>>> platform name to a class of the same name + Hostname, which then sets
>>> the strategy class, which actually implements the way of updating
>>> hostname.
>>>
>>> to figure out platform name it uses platform.system() built in from
>>> python. can you do test the output of this in your instance? also
>>> platform.linux_distribution() and platform.dist() which might be used
>>> as fallbacks.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Brian Coca
>>>
>>
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