RHEL/CentOS/Fedora support.

[kyrian666]

Hi,

Found I needed this, alongside debian/ubuntu support. This plugin seemed the best of the lot, so grabbed it for the Debian side, which works lovely. Other stuff still needed doing, so I now think I have some code that works for the RedHat derived stuff (with a lot of thanks to wikipedia for the aggregated data). RH do not seem to publish in a meaningful form anything like the distro-info package for Debian/Ubuntu that I could find, so had to create CSV's for it. It sucks, but should work for now.

Tried to open a PR but permission denied, hence raising issue.

Where to go with this now?

K.

PS. Only tested against CentOS thus far, and a bit lightly at that, but I think the code lines up for other distros. People can feel free to offer improvements though.

[oliver]

Hi,

RHEL/CentOS support sounds useful! Do you have your changes as Git commits (here on Github, or on some other site), so I can have a look at it?

In the long run the main effort will probably be to keep those unofficial RHEL/CentOS CSVs up to date. I'm not keen on doing that maintenance work myself (since I don't have any such systems at the moment); but there might be enough volunteers who need this feature and are willing to update the files.

Oliver

[kyrian666]

Here you go:

#12

I've called it 'experimental' in the updated README because that's about the level I think it's at so far. Just an evening's work over some beers and not much testing at all really.