[Kimchi-devel] [RFC] Issue #802 - Update list of remote templates

[Daniel Henrique Barboza]

I think you're referring to issue 611. 802 is marked as closed.



On 08/12/2016 04:04 PM, Ramon Medeiros wrote:
> Propose:
> Unless has a set of distro isos, use an algorithm to query new ISOs 
> from repositories and display them when creating new templates.
>
> Ways to implement it:
>
> 1) Add a script that queries the ISOS everytime we lookup at template 
> list. In the past, we've got a PoC from Cristian Viana, saying that it 
> could take a while 
> (https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/issues/605#issuecomment-78279706).

If you're referring to the remote template dialog then we can try to 
work something
out. However we need to be careful about two things:

1 - Always ask the question "what if the host doesn't have internet 
access?" when
thinking about this feature. Even in the remote template dialog there is 
a fair use
without internet - a remote  ISO can be hosted in an isolated network 
for example.

2 - Don't be shady. We can't connect to Red Hat FTP and search for ISOS 
without
the user knowledge.

>
> 2) We can run the script when starting wok, and write the output to a 
> dictonary. The only problem will be servers that did not reboot.

See (2). If you come up with a mechanism (config file is the only one I 
can think
about now) to allow the user to enable this verification in boot time, 
then I agree.
Of course that this verification would be disabled by default because, 
again, we
can't impact the users that aren't interested in this feature.

>
>
> I would like to have a way that we can run the script in parallel, 
> like refreshing the cache between some periods.
>