Update external docs

Author: garrett

external/bots/README.md

@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ For running and debugging the images:
 ## Image location
 
 Downloaded images are stored into ~/.cache/cockpit-images/ by default. If you
-want to change that, you can set the `cockpit.bots.images-data-dir` variable
-with `git config` to a directory where to store the pristine virtual machine
-images.  For example:
+want to change that, you can set `$COCKPIT_IMAGES_DATA_DIR` or the
+`cockpit.bots.images-data-dir` variable with `git config` to a directory where
+to store the pristine virtual machine images.  For example:
 
     git config cockpit.bots.images-data-dir /srv/cockpit/images
 

external/source/test/README.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ You first need to build cockpit, and install it into a VM:
 
     test/image-prepare
 
-This uses the default OS image, which is currently Fedora 38. See `$TEST_OS`
+This uses the default OS image, which is currently Fedora 39. See `$TEST_OS`
 below how to select a different one.
 
 In most cases you want to run an individual test in a suite, for example:
@@ -158,16 +158,13 @@ to push pixel tests.
 You can set these environment variables to configure the test suite:
 
     TEST_OS    The OS to run the tests in.  Currently supported values:
-                  "centos-8-stream"
+                  "centos-9-stream"
                   "debian-stable"
                   "debian-testing"
-                  "fedora-38"
                   "fedora-39"
+                  "fedora-40"
                   "fedora-coreos"
-                  "fedora-testing"
-                  "rhel-8-10"
-                  "rhel-8-10-distropkg"
-                  "rhel-9-3"
+                  "rhel-9-4"
                   "rhel4edge",
                   "ubuntu-2204"
                   "ubuntu-stable"