Hey Simon, On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 07:32:08PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: >Control: reassign -1 osinfo-db >Control: affects -1 + gnome-boxes > >On Thu, 22 May 2025 at 19:45:16 +0200, Alban Browaeys wrote: >> When choosing "Debian 12 x86_64" [in gnome-boxes] >> in create "Download an OS" (the plus dropdown) I get this error: >> Échec du téléchargement de "debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso" : Not >> Found" >> ie likely "Failure to download ... debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso : Not >> Found" >> >> After a short search, I did not find the file where this iso location is >> defined. > >Looks like this comes from osinfo-db: >https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso&literal=1 >Does this need to be updated for every point release? > >debian-cd: is there a URL that this could point to without needing to specify >a concrete version number? This is for machine consumption (gnome-boxes is a >virtualization frontend) so it needs to be a direct link to the .iso, not a >web page with human-readable text, but HTTP redirects would probably be OK. > >https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-cd/ looked >promising, but then the .iso filename still has the version number in it.
I'll see what we can do... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com The two hard things in computing: * naming things * cache invalidation * off-by-one errors -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
