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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23-12-2013 11:27, Aline Manera
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<blockquote cite="mid:52B83A24.5050109@linux.vnet.ibm.com"
type="cite">On 12/20/2013 07:45 PM, Rodrigo Trujillo wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">I think that is nice to support "easy
installation" of various linux flavours, but the way that this
feature is implemented today
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might kill us in the future, because everything is hardcoded in
the json's.
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That means we will have to pay attention on each new distro
versions and links and support the changes.
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The json files are for remote ISOs.
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Some of them are predefined by Kimchi and others can be from other
packages.
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I agree that way we need to confirm the links in json files are
correct but how automate that?
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I also agree with that. But I don't see an easy way that would work
for every distro. My suggestion would be to implement some algorithm
to fetch, let's say, the two latest release images and display the
remote ISOs to download. For example, for Ubuntu, we could work on
the base URL
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs-Ubuntu/">http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs-Ubuntu/</a>, look for version
directories (\d{2}.\d{2}), and then the ISO files
(ubuntu-{version}-desktop-amd64.iso). That would update the Kimchi
remote templates suggestions automatically as soon as the distro
releases a new image. But that could break easily if the distro's
host server changes something regarding the image URLs.<br>
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This patch follows the current mechanism used by the other distros.<br>
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