Public bug reported:
Impact
======
The purpose of osinfo-db is to provide a database of guest operating systems
for use by virtualization provisioning tools using the libosinfo library. The
two primary users are the GNOME Boxes and Virt Manager apps.
This SRU updates the database to the latest release.
It also includes patches to
- Update Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for the stable release
- EOL changes for Ubuntu 23.04
- Add Ubuntu 24.10 as prerelease so that 24.10 ISOs are recognized (although it
won't be suggested for download by GNOME Boxes)
Test Case 0
===========
osinfo-db has an extensive test suite to validate the data files. If the test
suite fails, it will fail the build. These tests are also run as autopkgtests.
Ensure the build succeeds and the autopkgtest passes
Test Case 1
===========
1. Install the update
2. Open a terminal and run
sudo apt install gnome-boxes
3. Run gnome-boxes
4. Click + then press "Download an operating system" (The UI varies depending
on the version of gnome-boxes).
5. Select Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x86_64 (Live)
6. The ISO will download to your Downloads folder
7. When it completes, the wizard will prompt you to create a Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
virtual machine.
Complete the wizard.
8. The virtual machine should start. Finish installing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS inside.
Afterwards, restart and log into the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS virtual machine.
9. Open a terminal and run this command: cat /etc/os-release to verify that you
are using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
10. Afterwards, you can power off the virtual machine.
Test Case 2
===========
From a terminal, run
osinfo-query os vendor="Canonical Ltd"
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.10, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10 should be
included in the list.
Where problems could occur
==========================
It is always possible to use ISOs not recognized by osinfo-db with either GNOME
Boxes or Virt Manager. osinfo-db provides useful metadata like recommended RAM,
recommended hard disk size, and what virtualized hardware interfaces are
supported.
This update significantly improves the ability of those apps to
recognize distros released in the first half of 2024, while also
updating some metadata details for older releases.
The most likely possible problem is that some download links may no
longer work. However, we know that the Ubuntu 23.04 download links were
broken before this update and 24.04 LTS was marked as pre-release so in
general download links will be better with this update.
** Affects: osinfo-db (Ubuntu)
Importance: Medium
Status: Fix Committed
** Affects: osinfo-db (Ubuntu Jammy)
Importance: Medium
Status: Triaged
** Affects: osinfo-db (Ubuntu Mantic)
Importance: Medium
Status: Triaged
** Affects: osinfo-db (Ubuntu Noble)
Importance: Medium
Status: Triaged
** Tags: jammy mantic noble
** Also affects: osinfo-db (Ubuntu Jammy)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: osinfo-db (Ubuntu Mantic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: osinfo-db (Ubuntu Noble)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: osinfo-db (Ubuntu Jammy)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: osinfo-db (Ubuntu Jammy)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: osinfo-db (Ubuntu Mantic)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: osinfo-db (Ubuntu Mantic)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: osinfo-db (Ubuntu Noble)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: osinfo-db (Ubuntu Noble)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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Update osinfo-db to 0.20240510
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