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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/operating_systems/linux_distro.py20
-rw-r--r--var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/qt/package.py3
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/operating_systems/linux_distro.py b/lib/spack/spack/operating_systems/linux_distro.py
index 8bb2aa7749..c03e85ccba 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/operating_systems/linux_distro.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/operating_systems/linux_distro.py
@@ -2,11 +2,31 @@
# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+import platform as py_platform
import re
+from spack.version import Version
+
from ._operating_system import OperatingSystem
+def kernel_version():
+ """Return the kernel version as a Version object.
+ Note that the kernel version is distinct from OS and/or
+ distribution versions. For instance:
+ >>> external.distro.id()
+ 'centos'
+ >>> external.distro.version()
+ '7'
+ >>> platform.release()
+ '5.10.84+'
+ """
+ # Strip '+' characters just in case we're running a
+ # version built from git/etc
+ clean_version = re.sub(r'\+', r'', py_platform.release())
+ return Version(clean_version)
+
+
class LinuxDistro(OperatingSystem):
""" This class will represent the autodetected operating system
for a Linux System. Since there are many different flavors of
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/qt/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/qt/package.py
index e79a72c842..47339df1f8 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/qt/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/qt/package.py
@@ -10,10 +10,11 @@ import sys
import llnl.util.tty as tty
from spack import *
+from spack.operating_systems.linux_distro import kernel_version
from spack.operating_systems.mac_os import macos_version
MACOS_VERSION = macos_version() if sys.platform == 'darwin' else None
-LINUX_VERSION = Version(platform.release()) if platform.system() == 'Linux' else None
+LINUX_VERSION = kernel_version() if platform.system() == 'Linux' else None
class Qt(Package):