[Kimchi-devel] [PATCH] Add support for Gentoo Linux

[Rodrigo Trujillo]

Yes, we could use some fetch algorithm, but urls are unreliable and 
could change any time, breaking the code.  Anyway, this is not priority 
now... lets move on.

On 12/23/2013 04:47 PM, Crístian Viana wrote:
>
> On 23-12-2013 11:27, Aline Manera wrote:
>> On 12/20/2013 07:45 PM, Rodrigo Trujillo wrote:
>>> I think that is nice to support "easy installation" of various linux 
>>> flavours, but the way that this feature is implemented today
>>> might kill us in the future, because everything is hardcoded in the 
>>> json's.
>>> That means we will have to pay attention on each new distro versions 
>>> and links and support the changes.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The json files are for remote ISOs.
>> Some of them are predefined by Kimchi and others can be from other 
>> packages.
>>
>> I agree that way we need to confirm the links in json files are 
>> correct but how automate that?
>
> 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 http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs-Ubuntu/, 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.
>
> This patch follows the current mechanism used by the other distros.

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