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Control: reassign -1 osinfo-db
Control: affects -1 + gnome-boxes

On Thu, 22 May 2025 at 19:45:16 +0200, Alban Browaeys wrote:

When choosing "Debian 12 x86_64" [in gnome-boxes]
in create "Download an OS" (the plus dropdown) I get this error:
Échec du téléchargement de "debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso" : Not
Found"
ie likely "Failure to download ... debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso : Not Found"

After a short search, I did not find the file where this iso location is defined.

Looks like this comes from osinfo-db: https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso&literal=1
Does this need to be updated for every point release?

debian-cd: is there a URL that this could point to without needing to
specify a concrete version number? This is for machine consumption
(gnome-boxes is a virtualization frontend) so it needs to be a direct
link to the .iso, not a web page with human-readable text, but HTTP
redirects would probably be OK.

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-cd/ looked promising, but then the .iso filename still has the version number in it.

Thanks,
smcv

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On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:

Looks like this comes from osinfo-db: https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso&literal=1
Does this need to be updated for every point release?

debian-cd: is there a URL that this could point to without needing to
specify a concrete version number? This is for machine consumption (gnome-boxes is a virtualization frontend) so it needs to be a direct
link to the .iso, not a web page with human-readable text, but HTTP
redirects would probably be OK.

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-cd/ looked promising, but then the .iso filename still has the version number in it.

Yes, please. In late 2023, Ubuntu added a (hidden) symlink or redirect
like this for their LTS releases: https://releases.ubuntu.com/noble/ubuntu-24.04-latest-desktop-amd64.iso

Debian 12 never got an update of osinfo-db because it wasn't possible
for a Debian 12 point release to include the download URL for the new
Debian 12 point release unless we predicted what the next version
would be and then updated osinfo-db for every single Debian point
release. Even then, that wouldn't help people using other distros who
wanted to try Debian using the useful Download an OS feature in the
GNOME Boxes app since the download URL would probably be out of date
and wouldn't work.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

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Hey Simon,

On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 07:32:08PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:

Control: reassign -1 osinfo-db
Control: affects -1 + gnome-boxes

On Thu, 22 May 2025 at 19:45:16 +0200, Alban Browaeys wrote:

When choosing "Debian 12 x86_64" [in gnome-boxes]
in create "Download an OS" (the plus dropdown) I get this error:
Échec du téléchargement de "debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso" : Not
Found"
ie likely "Failure to download ... debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso : Not Found"

After a short search, I did not find the file where this iso location is defined.

Looks like this comes from osinfo-db: >https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso&literal=1
Does this need to be updated for every point release?

debian-cd: is there a URL that this could point to without needing to specify >a concrete version number? This is for machine consumption (gnome-boxes is a >virtualization frontend) so it needs to be a direct link to the .iso, not a >web page with human-readable text, but HTTP redirects would probably be OK.

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-cd/ looked >promising, but then the .iso filename still has the version number in it.

I'll see what we can do...

--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com The two hard things in computing:
* naming things
* cache invalidation
* off-by-one errors -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen

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