Impact
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The purpose of osinfo-db is to provide a database of guest operating systems for use by virtualization provisioning tools using the libosinfo library. The two primary users are the GNOME Boxes and Virt Manager apps.
This SRU updates the database to the latest release including OS updates for the second half of 2024 including the release of Ubuntu 24.10 and the end of life of Ubuntu 23.10. It also adds Ubuntu 25.04 as a prerelease so that 25.04 ISOs are recognized (although it won't be suggested for download by GNOME Boxes)
Test Case 0
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osinfo-db has an extensive test suite to validate the data files. If the test suite fails, it will fail the build. These tests are also run as autopkgtests.
Ensure the build succeeds and the autopkgtest passes
Test Case 1
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1. Install the update
2. Open a terminal and run
sudo apt install gnome-boxes
3. Run gnome-boxes
4. Click + then press "Download an operating system" (The UI varies depending on the version of gnome-boxes).
5. Select Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x86_64 (Live)
6. The ISO will download to your Downloads folder
7. When it completes, the wizard will prompt you to create a Ubuntu 24.04 LTS virtual machine.
Complete the wizard.
8. The virtual machine should start. Finish installing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS inside. Afterwards, restart and log into the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS virtual machine.
9. Open a terminal and run this command: cat /etc/os-release to verify that you are using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
10. Afterwards, you can power off the virtual machine.
Test Case 2
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From a terminal, run
osinfo-query os vendor="Canonical Ltd"
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 23.10, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 24.10 should be included in the list.
Where problems could occur
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It is always possible to use ISOs not recognized by osinfo-db with either GNOME Boxes or Virt Manager. osinfo-db provides useful metadata like recommended RAM, recommended hard disk size, and what virtualized hardware interfaces are supported.
This update significantly improves the ability of those apps to recognize distros released in the first half of 2024, while also updating some metadata details for older releases.
The most likely possible problem is that some download links may no longer work. However, we know that the Ubuntu 23.04 download links were broken before this update and 24.04 LTS was marked as pre-release so in general download links will be better with this update.
Other Info
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I expect that this will be the last osinfo-db update for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS since the next SRU is expected to be after the initial 3 years of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS's life and osinfo-db is in universe. Updates are possible if someone wants to do the work, but I have limited time.
Hello Jeremy, or anyone else affected,
Accepted osinfo-db into oracular-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https:/
Please help us by testing this new package. See https:/
If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-
Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https:/
N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.