[Libosinfo] [PATCH] debian: update URLs for Debian 8 ISOs

[Pino Toscano]

On Wednesday, 15 March 2017 20:35:03 CET Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Pino Toscano <ptoscano at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Switch to URLs to the archive part of cdimage, so they will not become
> > invalid as soon as a new release is available.
> >
> > There is also a switch to version 8.6.0 -- the last Debian version at
> > this time is 8.7.1, which is just 8.7.0 but with fixed Volume IDs for
> > medias.  Unfortunately, 8.7.1 is not available in the archive, yet.
> > ---
> >  data/os/debian.org/debian-8.xml.in | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/data/os/debian.org/debian-8.xml.in b/data/os/debian.org/debian-8.xml.in
> > index 19bb8a5..e2e131f 100644
> > --- a/data/os/debian.org/debian-8.xml.in
> > +++ b/data/os/debian.org/debian-8.xml.in
> > @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
> >      </resources>
> >
> >      <media arch="i686">
> > -      <url>http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.4.0/i386/iso-dvd/debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-1.iso</url>
> > +      <url>http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/8.6.0/i386/iso-dvd/debian-8.6.0-i386-DVD-1.iso</url>
> >        <iso>
> >          <volume-id>Debian 8.\d.\d i386 1</volume-id>
> >        </iso>
> > @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
> >        <initrd>install.386/initrd.gz</initrd>
> >      </media>
> >      <media arch="x86_64">
> > -      <url>http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.4.0/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-8.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso</url>
> > +      <url>http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/8.6.0/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-8.6.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso</url>
> >        <iso>
> >          <volume-id>Debian 8.\d.\d amd64 1</volume-id>
> >        </iso>
> > --
> > 2.9.3
> >
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> Pino,
> 
> I've just reviewed Guido's patch.
> I know your approach and patch are different from his, but I'll go
> with his patch for now.

Heya,

that is fine -- though the problem still stands: the current paths
in debian-8.xml point to the non-archive part of cdimage, and there
only the latest version is kept. The consequence is that even the new
updated path (with 8.7.1) will become broken once 8.8 is released in
few months.  OTOH, switching to archive means the URL is still working,
although of course may point to the non-latest version of Debian 8.
Still, IMHO it would be better to still be able to install an older
version (which you can easily dist-upgrade later), than nothing at all.

I'm CCing Guido to get his opinion.

Thanks,
-- 
Pino Toscano
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