On Mon, Feb 14, 2011, Paul Larson wrote: > Only if linaro-n-developer.tar.gz is a symlink to > linrao-n-developer-tar-DATESTAMP-BUILDID.tar.gz. It is still useful to have > some easy way to see which image we are pulling, even if it means pulling it > out of the filename. Another alternative, would be if we could drop some > buildstamp file in the image directory to pull this from.
I personally don't like DATESTAMP in the filename; it makes rsync-ing harder as a start, and it only helps with local tarballs, not installed images. I think you want some build-stamp information in the tarball itself, no matter what, so you can as well "tar vtf linaro-n-dev.tar.gz|grep build-stamp" or something. The date of the build is only one of the important pieces of information which we want to see at a glance about a build, so I'd rather not clutter filenames with it. > Another thought too... if we are already going to this extent to make it > easier for people to stay up to date with the latest image, does it make > sense to go ahead and enable creation of .zsync files for the images? > Granted, these aren't nearly the size of an iso, but some of our folks with > slower connections might appreciate it. Good idea; there's also a request to consider .xz instead of .gz: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-images/+bug/683849 -- Loïc Minier _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
