On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 10:46:45AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> Hey Richard,
> 
> Sorry for the trouble but it seems my two emails got bounced.
> The first one I think becuase I went trigger happy and emailed
> before the list accepted me, and second I think because I was
> already on a moderated list from a prior email :P
> 
> My goal was to email guestfs@lists.libguestfs.org and Cc
> kdev...@lists.linux.dev

Sorry, it should be working now!  (Busy time and I'm on holiday ..)

>   Luis
> 
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 09:33:50AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > [ v2 as I don't think the v1 email got through to guestfs list ]
> > 
> > Thanks to the work by Jeff Layton, we've embraced guestfs on kdevops
> > [0] as a replacement to vagrant. To save bandwidth kdevops lets you
> > set up mirrors for all git trees we need, it would be nice to make it
> > easier for folks to also setup mirrors for guestfs base images, the
> > base images are here:
> > 
> > https://builder.libguestfs.org/
> > 
> > I take it we'd just add say
> > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/virt-builder/repos.d/kdevops-local-mirror.conf with
> > the new URL where we established the mirror, is that correct?

Yes.

> > I was looking to see if there was an rsync mirror for the main URL
> > where all the images are above, or is there a better way to get the
> > latest updates?

Ideally we'd like to not host the images at all, but getting distros
to host them instead has not been very successful (except for SUSE).

> > Also, to save even more time with images, it would be useful if we had
> > base images getting updates a bit more regularly so that the step to
> > apt-get upgrade after bringup won't take too long by using the latest
> > base images. It seems this is possible with customer images, but it
> > would be nicer if we had this as a general thing. Any ideas to support
> > that?

Yes, we'd like Debian to generate their own images!  Actually
they don't even need to generate images at all, just host
the index file.

Rich.

> > [0] https://github.com/linux-kdevops/kdevops
> > 
> >  Luis
> > 

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