File list on cdimage for the Ubuntu QA Tracker

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:51:33PM -0000, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> In order to have the Ubuntu QA Tracker and especially it's ISO tracking
> part being automatically updated when a new ISO set is built we would
> like to have a file somewhere on cdimage.ubuntu.com containing a full
> list of all ISOs stored on cdimage.
>
> This file would contain the distro, variant, arch, version, md5 and the path to the file.
> Ex. ubuntu desktop i386 20071004 293321c13bb9262c3c29929ad4578846 http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20071004/gutsy-desktop-i386.iso
>
> That way we will easily be able to check that we have the latest builds
> added on the tracker and will be able to extract the md5sum and path
> easier than currently (I have an awful function determining the path on
> cdimage from distro, variant and arch which sometimes work :))

Would something similar to the release manifest file be sufficient?

http://releases.ubuntu.com/.manifest

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 - mdz

Yes, something similar to what's on releases would be good.
Having md5sums would also help for the iso download information box.

Any progress on this one ?
I really need this file to avoid parsing cdimage and releases + have isos automatically added to the tracker.