compatibility fixes for Fedora and RHEL

This patch fixes issues in Fedora 18 (and upcoming RHEL 7) which are
present due to their use of systemd:

 - store locale configuration in /etc/locale.conf
 - store hostname in /etc/hostname
 - use a symlink for /etc/localtime (prior code would set the timezone
   but corrupt data in /usr/share/zoneinfo due to presence of symlink)

It also contains fixes for issues unrelated to systemd adoption:

 - explicitly scan /dev/sr0 with blkid in order to get the optical drive
   in the blkid cache.  This prevents an issue on systems running 2.6
   kernels (such as RHEL 6) in which config disks on some devices won't
   be detected unless the device has previously been queried.
    (For reference, see https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1770241/)
 - append a newline when rewriting sysconfig files, as this is customary
   text configuration file formatting and is expected by some parsers
   (such as the ifcfg-rh plugin for NetworkManager)

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cloudinit/util.py b/cloudinit/util.py
index 36e9b83b..50de55fe 100644
--- a/cloudinit/util.py
+++ b/cloudinit/util.py
@@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ def system_info():
         'release': platform.release(),
         'python': platform.python_version(),
         'uname': platform.uname(),
+        'dist': platform.linux_distribution(),
     }