Bug#926849: Generate treeinfo files to ease automatic installations

2019-04-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 11:49 +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > E.g. for amd64 and stretch we'd have a file > >http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-amd64/.treeinfo > > looking like > > [checksums] > current/images/netboot/mini.iso = sha256:... >

Bug#926849: Generate treeinfo files to ease automatic installations

2019-04-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 11:49:17AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: >http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-amd64/.treeinfo Why does it need to exist in this very specific place? How does the user know this specific place? Why not at

Bug#926849: Generate treeinfo files to ease automatic installations

2019-04-11 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15369 March 1977, Guido Günther wrote: Fedora and OpenSUSE came up with treeinfo files in the installer directories of their repository servers. There was some discussion about this on debian-devel a while back [0]. Appears kind of redundant information, but whatever. I don't have

Bug#926849: Generate treeinfo files to ease automatic installations

2019-04-11 Thread Guido Günther
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi, in order to ease fully automatic installation in tools like gnome-boxes, virt-manager or OpenStack it would be nice to have some additional metadata to make it simpler for tools like libosinfo (or other tools using the same information) to identify