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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 18.05.15 19:44, Matthew Miller (mattdm at fedoraproject.org) 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.>
> 
> A second option would be the index.asc as used by virt-builder:
> <https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5805>
> 
> That way, we'd have a standardized way for applications to find and
> download/launch/whatever various Fedora images. This is a definite need
> (see https://fedorahosted.org/cloud/ticket/93) and rather than
> inventing a new wheel, maybe we could see if we could pound one of
> these into shape.

There's also the ACI discovery stuff:

https://github.com/appc/spec/blob/master/SPEC.md#app-container-image-discovery

Doesn't really apply to non-ACI images right now, but the concepts in
it are a bit nicer I think then the alternatives (i.e. the fact that
it renders the image names into URL via a fixed template, and that it
uses <meta> tags for exposing this information is pretty nice).

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat