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Motivation¶

We have an issue with s390x-zVM boot process of Full/Offline medium, it requires a different way to boot using squashfs and ISO check this issue for reference https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/179290.
We have applied this changes in code but currently, the URL path is too long for s390x-zVM hosts and there is no easy solution with the given shorteners (Agama doesn't extract the final URL to download the repository data).
In our current scenario Agama will receive an URL from schort like http://s.qa.suse.de/ABC123 that references something like http://openqa.suse.de/assets/repo/SLES-16.0-Full-s390x-Build77.1.install/install/ this final URL contains the Offline repositories to make Agama work without register but, Agama cannot fetch http://s.qa.suse.de/ABC123/repodata.xml that libzypp requires to fetch the packages metadata as schort script (python) doesn't handle the subpath redirection.

According to the maintainer of schort is it better to provide redirection in the server than go for the path of changing this simple tools which should remain simple.

Acceptance criteria¶

• AC1: Enable long URLs in s390x zVM using redirection by salting our configuration for openQA

Additional information¶

Example test: https://openqa.suse.de/tests/17407292
Tentative PR from @JERiveraMoya to allow schort handle path (it requires an update to handle s390x and latest naming).

• https://github.com/sqozz/schort/pull/9
• https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa/-/merge_requests/1365
  Tentative PR from @jfernandez to add redirection on Salt-pillars/states (need more research).
• https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-pillars-openqa/-/merge_requests/1014
• https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa/-/merge_requests/1426
  Tentative PR from @nicksinger about Salt-pillars redirection
• https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-pillars-openqa/-/merge_requests/969

Slack thread where we have talked about that topic: https://suse.slack.com/archives/C02CANHLANP/p1738244925432889