import subprocess def service_available(service_name): """Determine whether a system service is available""" try: subprocess.check_output( ['service', service_name, 'status'], stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).decode('UTF-8') except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e: return b'unrecognized service' not in e.output else: return True def add_new_group(group_name, system_group=False, gid=None): cmd = ['addgroup'] if gid: cmd.extend(['--gid', str(gid)]) if system_group: cmd.append('--system') else: cmd.extend([ '--group', ]) cmd.append(group_name) subprocess.check_call(cmd) def lsb_release(): """Return /etc/lsb-release in a dict""" d = {} with open('/etc/lsb-release', 'r') as lsb: for l in lsb: k, v = l.split('=') d[k.strip()] = v.strip() return d def cmp_pkgrevno(package, revno, pkgcache=None): """Compare supplied revno with the revno of the installed package. * 1 => Installed revno is greater than supplied arg * 0 => Installed revno is the same as supplied arg * -1 => Installed revno is less than supplied arg This function imports apt_cache function from charmhelpers.fetch if the pkgcache argument is None. Be sure to add charmhelpers.fetch if you call this function, or pass an apt_pkg.Cache() instance. """ import apt_pkg if not pkgcache: from charmhelpers.fetch import apt_cache pkgcache = apt_cache() pkg = pkgcache[package] return apt_pkg.version_compare(pkg.current_ver.ver_str, revno)