pos = m.end()

return lib, version

def _dist_try_harder(distname, version, id):

""" Tries some special tricks to get the distribution

information in case the default method fails.

Currently supports older SuSE Linux, Caldera OpenLinux and

Slackware Linux distributions.

"""

if os.path.exists('/var/adm/inst-log/info'):

# SuSE Linux stores distribution information in that file

distname = 'SuSE'

for line in open('/var/adm/inst-log/info'):

tv = line.split()

if len(tv) == 2:

tag, value = tv

else:

continue

if tag == 'MIN_DIST_VERSION':

version = value.strip()

elif tag == 'DIST_IDENT':

values = value.split('-')

id = values[2]

return distname, version, id

if os.path.exists('/etc/.installed'):

# Caldera OpenLinux has some infos in that file (thanks to Colin Kong)

for line in open('/etc/.installed'):

pkg = line.split('-')

if len(pkg) >= 2 and pkg[0] == 'OpenLinux':

# XXX does Caldera support non Intel platforms ? If yes,

# where can we find the needed id ?

return 'OpenLinux', pkg[1], id

if os.path.isdir('/usr/lib/setup'):

# Check for slackware version tag file (thanks to Greg Andruk)

verfiles = os.listdir('/usr/lib/setup')

for n in range(len(verfiles)-1, -1, -1):

if verfiles[n][:14] != 'slack-version-':

del verfiles[n]

if verfiles:

verfiles.sort()

distname = 'slackware'

version = verfiles[-1][14:]

return distname, version, id

return distname, version, id

def popen(cmd, mode='r', bufsize=-1):

""" Portable popen() interface.