the distro.id() report different id other than lsb_release on CentosStream

[braindevices]

version: 1.4.0 lsb_release -i -s is CentOSStream. But distro.id() is centos. The distro.version() is report as 8. There seems no way to distinguish the centos8-stream and centos8, except using the distro.name().

[HorlogeSkynet]

Hi @braindevices, sorry for the delay.

I don't want to answer for the whole team, but here are my thoughts on this issue :

• distro prefers (normalized) OS-RELEASE identifier shipped by distribution, and only falls back on lsb_release when the former is not available (see Background) ;
• this might be an upstream issue if distribution ids differ between OS-RELEASE and lsb_release output ;
• the underlying question is : Do CentOS developers consider CentOS Stream as a different distribution from CentOS (in OS-RELEASE terms) ?

Below is a short Python snippet developers may use to handle CentOS Stream if they need to :

import distro

is_centos_stream = distro.id() == "centos" and distro.version() >= "8"
if is_centos_stream:
    # ...

Thanks for your time, tell us if we could close this issue or not. Bye :wave:

[HorlogeSkynet]

Closing here due to age, please re-open if distro is actually failing to do its job/this is not an upstream issue 🙏