RPM Repository Snapshots
For reliable continuous development, the OSBuild project employs its own RPM repository snapshots. These snapshots are persistent and immutable. They are meant to be used by test farms, CI systems, and other development tools, in case the official RPM repositories are not suitable.
WARNING: These snapshots are not meant for production use! No guarantee of safety, applicability, or fitness for a particular purpose is made. No security fixes are applied to the repositories!
Target Repositories
The authoritative list of repositories that we target can be found in the
./repo/ subdirectory of the rpmrepo repository:
https://github.com/osbuild/rpmrepo/tree/main/repo
This directory contains a configuration for each target repository, including the Base-URL that will be sourced for snapshots. The following list contains an overview (possibly outdated) of the repositories we create snapshots for:
| Platform | Version | Architectures | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fedora | 31 | x86_64 | (obsolete) |
| Fedora | 32 | x86_64 | (obsolete) |
| Fedora | 33 | x86_64 | 12 months |
| Fedora | 34 | x86_64 | 12 months |
| Fedora | 35 | x86_64 | 12 months |
| RHEL | 8.2 | aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 | infinite? |
| RHEL | 8.3 | aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 | infinite? |
| RHEL | 8.4 | aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 | infinite? |
| RHEL | 8.5 | aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 | infinite? |
| RHEL | 9.0 | aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 | infinite? |
Each target repository has an ID-string that identifies it (which also is the
filename of its target configuration file in the ./repo/ directory). Whenever
a snapshot is created, the snapshot will be identified by that ID-string
suffixed with the date it was created (and possibly some other suffix
identifiers).
An enumeration of all available snapshots of all target repositories can be retrieved via:
$ curl -s https://rpmrepo.osbuild.org/v2/enumerate | jq .
For a given target repository ID-string like el9-x86_64-baseos-n9.0, the list
of available snapshots can be queried via:
$ curl -s https://rpmrepo.osbuild.org/v2/enumerate/el9-x86_64-baseos-n9.0 | jq .
Usage
We provide an RPM repository for every snapshot, accessible via
rpmrepo.osbuild.org. The Base URL for a given snapshot is:
https://rpmrepo.osbuild.org/v2/mirror/<storage>/<platform>/<snapshot>/
The parameters are:
| Key | Value | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| <storage> | public, rhvpn | public, rhvpn |
| <platform> | f<num>, el<num> | f33, el8 |
| <snapshot> | <tag> | f33-x86_64-devel-20201010 |
The storage key selects the actual data store. Available storage includes public for the anonymous, public storage, rhvpn for data on Red Hat private infrastructure. The platform key groups the data by platform, required for data lifetime management. The snapshot key selects the individual snapshot.
Note that not all data is available on all storage locations and platforms. If you select the wrong combination, you will get 404 replies. As a general rule, you should select the platform based on the snapshot name (e.g., for the snapshot f33-x86_64-devel-20201010 you should use f33 as platform). As storage selector, you should use public for all publicly available data, rhvpn for Red Hat internal data.
For instance, to access the F33 snapshot f33-x86_64-fedora-202103231401, use:
https://rpmrepo.osbuild.org/v2/mirror/public/f33/f33-x86_64-fedora-202103231401/
To access the EL8.2 snapshot el8-x86_64-baseos-r8.2-202103231359, use:
https://rpmrepo.osbuild.org/v2/mirror/rhvpn/el8/el8-x86_64-baseos-r8.2-202103231359/
Access
By default, all snapshots are publicly available, unless they contain confidential or proprietary data. If you decide to use these snapshots, please contact the OSBuild Developers and give us a short notice, so we can track the users and communicate upcoming changes:
- RPMrepo Issue Tracker: @GitHub
- Snapshot Maintainer: David Rheinsberg