Re: Location of Fedora cloud images
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Juerg Haefliger <juergh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Sandro "red" Mathys
<red(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Juerg Haefliger <juergh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > The current (qcow2) Fedora 20 cloud image lives at:
> >
> >
http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/fedora/linux/updates/20/Images/x86_64/....
Duh. That should have been
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/20/Images/x86_...
> > The date in the image name makes it slightly less convenient for
> > automatic
> > retrieval/processing of the image. Would it be possible to rearrange the
> > location so that a 'latest' link always points to the latest image
> > directory
> > and the image names are date-agnostic?
> >
> > Something like:
> >
> > 20/Images/x86_64/20140407/Fedora-x86_64-20-sda.qcow2
> > 20/Images/x86_64/20140407/Fedora-x86_64-20-sda.raw.xz
> > 20/Images/x86_64/latest -> 20140407
>
> Juerg, I think you are looking for those metalinks:
>
> Fedora 19:
> http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/fedora-19.x86_64.qcow2
> http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/fedora-19.i386.qcow2
>
> Fedora 20:
> http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/fedora-20.x86_64.qcow2
> http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/fedora-20.i386.qcow2
>
> Latest Stable (i.e. currently Fedora 20):
> http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/fedora-latest.x86_64.qcow2
> http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/fedora-latest.i386.qcow2
Ah that helps but how do I know if the image was updated since the last
download?
Well, all those links should result in a 301 moved permanently, with
the new location being the normal download url, i.e. with the date in
the file name. I don't think there's another way to check what you'll
get from those metalinks. Obviously, if you just want to know whether
a newer image exists at all, just check the directory of the file
you're pointed at (i.e. the one you used so far).
-- Sandro