On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 02:05:40PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 21:55 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 09:57:26AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 17:22 +0800, Jens-Ulrik Petersen wrote: > > > > Hi, I made a small cli tool for downloading Fedora iso's etc. > > > > > > > > It can download rawhide, branched, beta, and released isos (eg Workstation > > > > Live etc), and even WS Live respins (support for spins coming later). > > > > > > > > You can try it now from < > > > > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/fedora-img-dl/>;;. > > > > > > > > Feedback is welcome. > > > > > > I already basically wrote this: > > > > > > https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/fedfind > > > > > > it has a lot more capabilities, and is used quite heavily in various > > > tools and processes the QA team uses. > > > > Well I can go one better here and say there's a way to *not* download > > the ISOs :-) > > > > https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2019/04/13/virt-install-nbdkit-live-install/#content > > But you still need to know where the ISO you want to use *is*, which > fedfind can help you with ;) Absolutely :-) There's also the question Chris Murphy asked on that posting about whether in fact it actually downloads the whole ISO anyway (because of the way our ISOs contain a squashfs containing an ext4 image[1]). If we did go for lazy downloading this would be an opportunity to use a format which is more attuned to this purpose. And it could also contain much more content, since it would only be downloaded on demand. There are some sites which let you PXE boot Linux distros over the internet (https://netboot.xyz/ being the most notable). I have a vision that we could do this officially for Fedora one day, so you could entirely try out Fedora without any download or local install (until you decided you want to perform the local install). Of course I have already written the nbdkit plugin for this too ... https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/nbdkit-linuxdisk-plugin/#content Rich. [1] https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/unpack-the-russian-doll-of-a-f11-live-cd/ -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
