When unittesting this we found that the platform selecting class
hierarchies weren't working in all cases. If the subclass was directly
created (ie: LinuxHardware()), then it would use its inherited __new__()
to try to create itself. The inherited __new__ would look for
subclasses and end up calling its own __new__() again. This would
recurse endlessly. The new code detects when we want to find a subclass
to create (when the base class is used, ie: Hardware()) vs when to
create the class itself (when the subclass is used, ie:
LinuxHardware()).
Since this is now the default package manager, it got moved
to another location on Netbsd :
netbsd# type pkgin
pkgin is a tracked alias for /usr/pkg/bin/pkgin
netbsd# uname -a
NetBSD netbsd.example.org 6.1.4 NetBSD 6.1.4 (GENERIC) amd64
But since the package manager is also used outside of NetBSD, we
have to keep the /opt/local path too.
It currently fail with
ansible/module_utils/facts.py\", line 357, in get_service_mgr_facts\r\nKeyError: 'distribution'\r\n"
Since self.facts['distribution'] is used after, we need to make sure
this is set by default and if needed, corrected somewhere for Linux.
Initialize facts['distribution'] with self.system so that this fact does
not remain uninitialized on systems_platform_working platforms (FreeBSD,
OpenBSD).
Fixes#15841
* better fix for arch version detection
fixes #15696
* be extra safe about tracebacks in facts.py
* add comments to explain the setup
* make allowempty more conservative, ignore file content
* wrap function call in try/except
* should never happen, but if it happens the bug should be distribtion=N/A and not a traceback
* add tests for centos6, rhel6 and rhel7
* gen_distribution_version_testcase with python2.6
* remove unused imports
* fix redhat/vmware/... parsing
* add centos7 test case
* split code as separate class
* split different distributions as individual functions
* keep program logic mostly identical (for now)
* increase readability, reduce complexity/indentation
* make future testing/refactoring easier
* step towards making distribution parsing independent of the Facts class
* add some changes to make facts.py python3 parsable
* use list of possible directories directly instead of checking distribution info
* this could fail if someone has keys in one of the other directories, but there could also be custom ssh key directories, which
are not checked at all
* this is work towards separating Facts from Distribution in facts.py
* Make documentation examples into code blocks
* Make code to call the subsets more general.
* Made min subset always execute (cannot disable it).
* Use a passed in modules parameter rather than global modules. This is needed for ziploader
* Remove unneeded __init__()
* Remove uneeded multiple inheritance from a base class
* gather_facts is now a list type
