[pve-devel] [PATCH manager v7 0/2] fix #4849: allow download of compressed ISOs

[Philipp Hufnagl]

On 9/20/23 14:09, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> On September 20, 2023 1:50 pm, Dominik Csapak wrote:
>> On 9/20/23 13:46, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
>>> On September 20, 2023 1:07 pm, Dominik Csapak wrote:
>>>> LGTM and works as advertised.
>>> it breaks downloading container templates that are compressed with one
>>> of the "known" compression algorithms (such as gz).
>>>
>>> probably the detect-compression parameter and handling needs to go back
>>> in (that was the reason it was there in the first place!), or some other
>>> solution needs to be found..
>>>
>>>
>> ah yes ofc, sorry for the oversight
>>
>> couldn't we simply check in the backend for the download for the content type?
>> as we only really need to unpack isos?
> the "query url" part doesn't know about (storage) content types. and it
> returns the file name, so we can't let it detect compression but throw
> that part away, else we get the uncompressed filename instead of the
> compressed one (exactly what happens with v7 now).
>
> that's why we originally made the client/GUI make the choice:
>
> iso download dialogue:
> - query url with compression support
> - allow overriding (de)compression
> - pass (de)compression to download if set
>
> other download dialogues (currently only templates):
> - query url without compression support
> - don't offer (de)compression choice
> - (de)compression is never set, thus never passed to download
>
> in addition, the download backend (which knows about content types) also
> only allows decompression for isos (at least for the time being, if we
> ever revisit and allow plain container template archives then all of
> this is moot anyway ;))

Thank you for reviewing this! I will make a v8 very soon featuring 
detect_compression again!