Incus documentation is invalid / out of date

[StripedMonkey]

I'm looking through the instructions on docs.rockylinux.org and the provided copr is neil/incus. This repo does not contain incus for rocky 10 and is at least a year out of date for rocky 9.

I do a little more digging and discover that the linuxcontainers.org/incus documentation instructs you to install the neelc/incus copr.

The neelc/incus repository is labeled on copr.coprfedorainfracloud.org as being a fork of the original neil/incus.

The "official" documentation here assures me that Neil Hanlon is an official rocky infra co-lead, but then it actually requires a bait and switch to a different repository maintained by an account with an almost homopone name with no such provenance. It is claiming on the copr page that it's a fork of Neil's repo because the previous isn't compatible (?! A Rocky infra lead isn't maintaining it for rocky?)

While I don't think anything malicious is going on, I feel it's worth pointing out how incredibly suspect it looks from the outside.

I am not going to dig further into the why, but the docs need to have the incus section removed or assurances of it's support/compatibility need to be removed. Using Neil's credibility here is a bad idea for official documentation for something obviously not well maintained.

[sspencerwire]

Hi @StripedMonkey You are correct. While Neil was an infra contributor and lead here, he recently stepped back from the project and I'm not sure if he is returning or not. That said, the incus repository that Neil created hasn't kept up with the versions either, so the current repository I'm using for incus is this one: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ligenix/enterprise-qemu-spice/ It has incus 6.23 and while that's not the latest build, it's still quite recent and certainly a good option. I'll get the docs updated for using this repository, and than you for bringing this to our attention. I don't think that there is anything suspect about the repository you mentioned, but it should be updated both in our documentation and in the linuxcontainers.org docs, simply from a more recent version of incus standpoint. Actually, I can see that the neelc/incus repository is at 6.23 version too. We don't control the copr.fedora repositories, so if there is anything suspect there, that's out of our control. Again, I don't feel that is the case.

[sspencerwire]

Hi again @StripedMonkey I've gone ahead and updated the docs.rockylinux.org documentation with PR#3396. Thank you again!