On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Gabriel Samfira <
gsamf...@cloudbasesolutions.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> The juju-metadata command generates simplestreams files to be used in
> private clouds for example. Both:
>
> juju-metadata generate-tools
> and
> juju-metadata generate-image
>
> will output files containing ":".
>
Ah yes, I forgot about those tools.
> We also care during testing, when the tests use local storage to save the
> metadata files. A quick snippet of a failing test bellow:
>
> simplestreams_test.go:372:
> s.assertWriteMetadata(c, false)
> testing/testing.go:108:
> c.Assert(err, gc.IsNil)
> ... value *os.LinkError = &os.LinkError{Op:"replace",
> Old:"C:\\Users\\ADMINI~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\1\\gocheck-89438594918
> 3117216\\0\\.tmp\\juju-filestorage-736520790",
> New:"C:\\Users\\ADMINI~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\1\\gocheck-894385949183117216
> \\0\\tools\\streams\\v1\\com.ubuntu.juju:released:tools.json", Err:0x7b}
> ("replace C:\\Users\\ADMINI~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp
> \\1\\gocheck-894385949183117216\\0\\.tmp\\juju-filestorage-736520790
> C:\\Users\\ADMINI~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\1\\gocheck-8
> 94385949183117216\\0\\tools\\streams\\v1\\
> *com.ubuntu.juju:released:tools.json*: *The filename, directory name, or
> volume label** syntax is incorrect.*")
>
OK. Still, we control those filenames: they don't *have* to be the same as
what simplestreams specifies, though it may be a PITA to try to work around
it.
> Regards,
> Gabriel
>
>
> On 22.08.2014 04:54, Andrew Wilkins wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:37 AM, Nate Finch <nate.fi...@canonical.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Simplestreams generates files with names like this:
>>
>>
>> http://maas.ubuntu.com/images/ephemeral-v2/daily/streams/v1/com.ubuntu.maas:daily:v2:download.sjson
>>
>> Unfortunately, the colons in the filename are illegal on Windows, which
>> complicates getting tests running on Juju, and getting a fully-functional
>> juju on Windows.
>>
>
> Dumb question: when/where do we care? A URL is not a filesystem path,
> and we don't store simplestreams metadata on disk other than in provider
> storage as far as I'm aware. Provider storage is only on-disk for
> manual/local bootstrap nodes (for now).
>
> I brought this up with Scott Moser, and it sounds like it might not be
>> the end of the world to change the delimiter that is used to be something
>> Windows-friendly.
>>
>> I wanted to bring this up on juju-dev in case there are juju-specific
>> concerns about the proposed change to the filenames.
>>
>> I'm new to simplestreams, so I'm sure there are nuances I don't
>> understand, which is why I'm posting it here.
>>
>> -Nate
>>
>>
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