Provide insiders builds in a yum repo

[darrenkenny]

At the moment the latest stable releases are being made available from a yum repo at:

• https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode/

Really would be fantastic if the insider's build could also be made available in this way, from something like:

• https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode-insiders/

From what I can see this is being done for Ubuntu, so why not RHEL7?

It would make the updating of the more frequent Insiders builds a lot easier than having to download them then install manually.

If you cannot provide a repo, then even a valid direct link that could be installed directly like:

• yum install http://..../code-insiders-...rpm

would be good - with the current re-directions it doesn't appear to be possible to get a valid URL to do this from the download page.

Thanks,

Darren.

[Tyriar]

Hm, could have sworn there was an issue for this already but I can't find it.

The reason is because the signing process for rpms is manual currently, so it's too large of a time investment until it's automated. We're blocked by another team internally on this.

[AmandaCameron]

Don't suppose there's been any update on this?

[ngetchell]

I use the insider builds and dislike having to go to the website to download the latest bits after every update.

[darkvertex]

Same here. I'd be willing to settle for a Microsoft-provided yum repo of "unsigned" insiders builds if it meant we could have them more easily. :/

For now this seems to work for me:

wget "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=760866" -O /tmp/code-insiders.rpm && sudo yum install -y /tmp/code-insiders.rpm && rm /tmp/code-insiders.rpm

[thomasfedb]

@Tyriar any update on the signing blocker?

[sevenryze]

Any update for this feature? Goto website to download is a little bit inconvenient. so, please..

[RangerGH]

Any update? I see it was closed (I think) on 5/2018 with no comments. As mentioned above having to download manually each time is a pain.

[robellegate]

@RangerGH, the issue wasn't closed. The message you saw is duplicate issue #49952 which was closed with a link back to this issue.

I'm eagerly anticipating an update for this feature. @darkvertex workaround works well, but it's not as seamless as just using a yum repo.

[Tyriar]

Took our sweet time but this is now up and running, set up the rpm repo with these instructions and install using sudo dnf install code-insiders 🎉