On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 11:05:09AM +0200, Barak Korren wrote: > Since upstream images can update quite often, we've made efforts to > automate the process of polling the disro download servers for new > images, and downloading them into Glance. > > In order to make images useful for users, we need to know various > details like which OS version is in the image. Since every distro has > got its own idea about how to organise the download server and name > the files in it, we had to resort to regex-matching the image files to > extract useful details about them.
We have a long-standing but hopefully soon-to-be-resolved request for an image index file. Sounds like this is another ideal use case. Can you please add a comment to https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5805? -- Matthew Miller <[email protected]> Fedora Project Leader
