simplestreams json or index.asc for deliverables in the new list-of-deliverables?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 07:44:37PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> FESCo Ticket #1427 <https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1427>
> formalizes the list of deliverables for each Fedora release. Cool.
> 
> Let's go a step beyond this and make a machine-readable list, at least
> of image-based deliverables. One approach would be to use using Ubuntu's simplestreams
> format, documented at
> <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~smoser/simplestreams/trunk/view/head:/doc/README.>

This could really do with an example.  FWIW several can be found here:

https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/streams/v1/

> A second option would be the index.asc as used by virt-builder:
> <https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5805>

Example:

http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/index.asc

I agree it is long past time that we had a mechanical way to describe
the various cloud and other images we are shipping.

Rich.

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