Some distribution have lsb_release but not release number

[flagarde]

Hello,
In the script ilcsoft.py you are assuming the release version is always present but some distribution are rolling so don't have any release version number.

so the code below is crashing:
#fg: release_string might be empty, e.g. if lsb_release does not exis (MacOs)
self.release_number = '-1'
if len( release_string ) :
self.release_number = release_string[re.search('\d', release_string).start()]

[gaede]

The code you are referring should protect against release versions not beeing available. On which system do you observe the crash ?

[flagarde]

On archlinux. If I understand well being a rolling distro they don't provide a release version when one uses "lsb_release -d 2" so the next part of the code cannot extract it.

$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: 1.4
Distributor ID: Arch
Description: Arch Linux
Release: rolling
Codename: n/a

[rete]

Hi @flagarde ,
did you find a fix in the meantime?
Can you make a pull request if you have an elegant solution to this problem?

[flagarde]

hi,
I think I don't have an elegant solution for now. If I remember well I use my favorite key when dealing with python : #