openSUSE / openSUSE/MirrorCache
Question: whitelisting / retrieve applicable mirror list in machine-readable format?
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Description
Hi,
we were asked to provide URL whitelists for Internet access, and regarding openSUSE downloads would like to automate this by querying MirrorCache.
I'm aware of using i.e. "https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.6/iso/openSUSE-Leap-15.6-DVD-x86_64-Build710.3-Media.iso?mirrorlist" to receive a currentlist of potential mirrors in human-readable format. Is there some query parameter I may add so that i.e. a JSON is returned?
And with regards to the list of applicable mirrors returned - comparing to "mirrors.opensuse.org" I can tell that above URL only returns a subset of mirrors. And as I see at least a few connects to mirrors not contained the the result from above URL (but contained in mirrors.opensuse.org) I must assume that the "?mirrorlist" query will return changing entries across multiple queries. True?
How are others handlng whitelisting requirements?
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Research direction
Start with the MirrorCache mirrorlist URL in the issue and compare its results with mirrors.opensuse.org. Determine whether a machine-readable response is supported, whether the returned mirror set is intentionally variable, and what documented behavior would satisfy automated whitelist users; no repository file or test is named.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- perl
- Domain
- api, backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100