Richard W.M. Jones
2017-May-30 14:46 UTC
[Libguestfs] FYI: Changes to libguestfs.org web hosting
The former libguestfs.org website was running on an old server in a cellar with "Beware of the Leopard" on the door. The server was overdue for retirement and is about to be decommissioned. I have moved and split up the hosting as follows: * The main website http://libguestfs.org is on a temporary server. The medium term plan is to move it to Openshift, but I've been having a lot of trouble getting access to my account, so this might not happen for another week. It should also allow us to enable TLS in the near-ish future. * The http://libguestfs.org/download directory has been moved to + http://builder.libguestfs.org , + http://archive.libguestfs.org and + http://download.libguestfs.org Existing file and directory URLs should redirect automatically. * http://builder.libguestfs.org contains the virt-builder templates previously located at http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/ Because that URL is baked into all sorts of Linux distros, I have set up redirection which should ensure that the old URLs keep working forever. But I will also submit an update to all our stable branches with the new URL. In my testing virt-builder seems fine, but more testing would be useful here. * http://archive.libguestfs.org hosts old tarballs of ancient versions of libguestfs, and is of historic interest only. The main reason to split this out was to reduce the amount of data that we need to store in Openshift. As above, redirects should automatically deal with old URLs. * http://download.libguestfs.org hosts only tarballs for current stable and development branches. Once a branch becomes unsupported I'll move it to http://archive.libguestfs.org Note also that http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance which is baked into some distros (particularly Gentoo) has moved. Again, redirects should take care of everything. All of this should be transparent to everyone - ie you shouldn't need to do anything at all. But as with all these things, if you find something is broken, please let me know. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW