I launched a RHEL instance on ibm softlayer in order to see what it had in /etc/redhat-release.
# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 (Maipo) I'll get redhat 6 version tomorrow. for the record, the util.get_linux_distro() did work, as it used /etc/os-release. # cat /etc/os-release NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server" VERSION="7.5 (Maipo)" ID="rhel" ID_LIKE="fedora" VARIANT="Server" VARIANT_ID="server" VERSION_ID="7.5" PRETTY_NAME="Red Hat" ANSI_COLOR="0;31" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5:GA:server" HOME_URL="https://www.redhat.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/" REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7" REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=7.5 REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux" REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="7.5" -- https://code.launchpad.net/~chad.smith/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/349380 Your team cloud-init commiters is requested to review the proposed merge of ~chad.smith/cloud-init:bug/1781229-centos6-copr-get-linux-distro into cloud-init:master. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~cloud-init-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~cloud-init-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

