On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 10:46:45AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
Hey Richard,
Sorry for the trouble but it seems my two emails got bounced. The first one I think becuase I went trigger happy and emailed before the list accepted me, and second I think because I was already on a moderated list from a prior email :P
My goal was to email guestfs@lists.libguestfs.org and Cc kdevops@lists.linux.dev
Sorry, it should be working now! (Busy time and I'm on holiday ..)
Luis
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 09:33:50AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
[ v2 as I don't think the v1 email got through to guestfs list ]
Thanks to the work by Jeff Layton, we've embraced guestfs on kdevops [0] as a replacement to vagrant. To save bandwidth kdevops lets you set up mirrors for all git trees we need, it would be nice to make it easier for folks to also setup mirrors for guestfs base images, the base images are here:
https://builder.libguestfs.org/
I take it we'd just add say $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/virt-builder/repos.d/kdevops-local-mirror.conf with the new URL where we established the mirror, is that correct?
Yes.
I was looking to see if there was an rsync mirror for the main URL where all the images are above, or is there a better way to get the latest updates?
Ideally we'd like to not host the images at all, but getting distros to host them instead has not been very successful (except for SUSE).
Also, to save even more time with images, it would be useful if we had base images getting updates a bit more regularly so that the step to apt-get upgrade after bringup won't take too long by using the latest base images. It seems this is possible with customer images, but it would be nicer if we had this as a general thing. Any ideas to support that?
Yes, we'd like Debian to generate their own images! Actually they don't even need to generate images at all, just host the index file. Rich.
[0] https://github.com/linux-kdevops/kdevops
Luis
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