improving Arch distro checking

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 ## [0.6.2] 2019-09-
 ### Improvements
 - Update notifications showing the number of updates by type as well
+- Improving Arch distro checking
 
 ### Fixes
 - Update-check daemon not showing notifications

bauh/api/abstract/context.py

@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ class ApplicationContext:
         self.cache_factory = cache_factory
         self.disk_loader_factory = disk_loader_factory
         self.logger = logger
-        self.linux_distro = platform.linux_distribution()
         self.file_downloader = file_downloader
         self.arch_x86_64 = sys.maxsize > 2**32
 

bauh/gems/arch/controller.py

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class ArchManager(SoftwareManager):
         self.comp_optimizer = ArchCompilationOptimizer(context.logger)
         self.logger = context.logger
         self.enabled = True
-        self.arch_distro = self.context.linux_distro[0].lower() == 'arch'
+        self.arch_distro = os.path.exists('/etc/arch-release')
 
     def _upgrade_search_result(self, apidata: dict, installed_pkgs: dict, downgrade_enabled: bool, res: SearchResult, disk_loader: DiskCacheLoader):
         app = self.mapper.map_api_data(apidata, installed_pkgs['not_signed'])