Summary: | request for persistent naming of stages | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Release Media | Reporter: | Wim Muskee <wimmuskee> |
Component: | Stages | Assignee: | Robin Johnson <robbat2> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | docs-team, releng |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Wim Muskee
2009-05-03 18:10:40 UTC
Robbat2, what do you think? I answered this via email already. I'll paste it here. > I'm against the symlinks, simple because then users end up with a > -latest tarball that has no metadata included in it. I consider being > able to identify that important for bug reporting. > > We do have an identifying string (I'll call it the identifier here) > already when we're making the stages and media, so if we're going to add > the symlink, I'd like the identifier added in two places: > 1. inside the tarball: /etc/gentoo-install-media (better filenames welcomed) > 2. In the tar volume label (tar --label "XYZ" cvf ...) > > The volume label lets us easily check tarballs without extracting them. If we get the identifiers, and users know that they _MUST_ include it when reporting a bug, then we can do the symlinks. Perhaps a text file in the /releases/<arch>/autobuilds/ dir containing the latest release filename will do. Determining the latest release will only require a quick wget on the text file. nightmorph: you might find the below useful too. Yes, we can have text files easily for you (better than symlinks too). I'll have: latest-stages.txt latest-isos.txt As applicable for each architecture. There may be multiple lines in each, example: /releases/x86/autobuilds/latest-stages.txt: 20090804/hardened/stage3-i686-hardened-20090804.tar.bz2 20090804/stage3-i686-20090804.tar.bz2 alpha, sparc, ia64 are the only architectures that release only a single stage each run. All the other architectures produce a few different ones. I saw the latest-stage3.txt's in the autobuild dirs, thanks. Perhaps someone could make a news item out of this, this is a nice feature. |