[pve-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] pveceph: print repo metadata when installing from manual

[Shannon Sterz]

On Mon Jul 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM CEST, Aaron Lauterer wrote:
> By printing the site and component, the person installing it manuall has
> a final check to see if the correct repository is being used.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lauterer <a.lauterer at proxmox.com>
> ---
>
> Notes:
>     I intially tried to get the repo definition similar to how it is in the
>     .list file and printed by apt-cache policy {package} but failed so far,
>     getting that info via AptPkg::Cache. Therefore, I used what I found so far.
>
>     changes since v1:
>     * rebased to new indentation
>
>  PVE/CLI/pveceph.pm | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/PVE/CLI/pveceph.pm b/PVE/CLI/pveceph.pm
> index a949582e..04c16199 100755
> --- a/PVE/CLI/pveceph.pm
> +++ b/PVE/CLI/pveceph.pm
> @@ -240,7 +240,6 @@ EOF
>          };
>
>          if ($repo eq "manual") {
> -            # TODO: get used repo metadata and print it as additional info

nit: you add this comment in the first patch of the series just to
remove it again here. might want to clean that up if another version of
this series is necessary.

>              my $apt_cache = AptPkg::Cache->new() || die "unable to initialize AptPkg::Cache\n";
>              my @ceph_versions = $apt_cache->{'ceph-common:amd64'}->{'VersionList'}->@*;
>              my $latest_available = $ceph_versions[0]->{'VerStr'};
> @@ -250,6 +249,12 @@ EOF
>              die
>                  "Selected Ceph version '${selected_version}' does not match the available version in the repository '${latest_available}' \n"
>                  if ($latest_available !~ "^$selected_version");
> +
> +            my $pkg_infos = $ceph_versions[0]->{'FileList'}->[0]->{'File'};
> +            print "\nUsing the following manual repository:\n"
> +                . "Site:\t\t $pkg_infos->{'Site'}\n"
> +                . "Component:\t $pkg_infos->{'Component'}\n\n";
> +
>          }
>
>          my @apt_install =