On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Juerg Haefliger <juergh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Sandro "red" Mathys <red@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Juerg Haefliger <juergh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > All, >> > >> > The current (qcow2) Fedora 20 cloud image lives at: >> > >> > http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/fedora/linux/updates/20/Images/x86_64/Fedora-x86_64-20-20140407-sda.qcow2. > > Duh. That should have been > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/20/Images/x86_64/Fedora-x86_64-20-20140407-sda.qcow2 > > >> > The date in the image name makes it slightly less convenient for >> > automatic >> > retrieval/processing of the image. Would it be possible to rearrange the >> > location so that a 'latest' link always points to the latest image >> > directory >> > and the image names are date-agnostic? >> > >> > Something like: >> > >> > 20/Images/x86_64/20140407/Fedora-x86_64-20-sda.qcow2 >> > 20/Images/x86_64/20140407/Fedora-x86_64-20-sda.raw.xz >> > 20/Images/x86_64/latest -> 20140407 >> >> Juerg, I think you are looking for those metalinks: >> >> Fedora 19: >> http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/fedora-19.x86_64.qcow2 >> http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/fedora-19.i386.qcow2 >> >> Fedora 20: >> http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/fedora-20.x86_64.qcow2 >> http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/fedora-20.i386.qcow2 >> >> Latest Stable (i.e. currently Fedora 20): >> http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/fedora-latest.x86_64.qcow2 >> http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/fedora-latest.i386.qcow2 > > Ah that helps but how do I know if the image was updated since the last > download? > Well, all those links should result in a 301 moved permanently, with the new location being the normal download url, i.e. with the date in the file name. I don't think there's another way to check what you'll get from those metalinks. Obviously, if you just want to know whether a newer image exists at all, just check the directory of the file you're pointed at (i.e. the one you used so far). -- Sandro _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
