Comment 4 for bug 2031036

I agree with you. I will have a look on it.

On Fri, 11 Aug 2023, 23:55 Mitch Burton, <email address hidden> wrote:

> May I suggest we move away from parsing lsb_release output (or file) and
> instead use /etc/os-release or /usr/lib/os-release? I think generally
> it's more standardized.
>
> See example: https://github.com/Perfect5th/landscape-
>
> client/blob/c5f6a4b673eb5f86281a8183242ae26e8580ca6b/landscape/lib/lsb_release.py#L73-L87
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> Title:
> Error when parsing lsb_release, landscape-package-reporter unable to
> report package list to server
>
> Status in Landscape Client:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> Package reporter from landscape client is failing to report to server
> because seemingly of a lsb parse issue.
>
> /var/log/landscape/package-reporter.log
>
> 2023-08-10 13:42:00,414 ERROR [MainThread] None
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line
> 653, in _runCallbacks
> current.result = callback(current.result, *args, **kw)
> File
> "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/landscape/client/package/taskhandler.py",
> line 217, in got_server_uuid
> lsb_release_info = parse_lsb_release(self.lsb_release_filename)
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/landscape/lib/lsb_release.py",
> line 31, in parse_lsb_release
> dist, desc, release, code_name, _ = lsb_info.decode().split("\n")
> ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 5)
>
> Multiple LSB Packages are installed
>
> /usr/bin/lsb_release
> LSB Version:
> core-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch:printing-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch:security-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch
>
> lsb_release -a
> LSB Version:
> core-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch:printing-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch:security-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
> Release: 18.04
> Codename: bionic
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