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 the installation tree.
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]. 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:... current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz = sha256:... current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/linux = sha256: ... [general] arch = x86_64 family = Debian name = Debian Stretch version = 9.8.0 platforms = x86_64 [images-x86_64] boot.iso = current/images/netboot/mini.iso initrd = current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz kernel = current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/linux The layout is described at [1]. Some terms are blurry e.g. platform so I'll look into clarifying these and make things match our requirements as well. I don't have experience with these parts of the archive software yet but would look into providing the necessary changes at some point. Cheers, -- Guido [0]: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/cak9pz9+d2w2+5x1nwe_+vxhmafoke3gehrycudphm38ykx7...@mail.gmail.com [1]: https://release-engineering.github.io/productmd/treeinfo-1.0.html
