As I expressed in upstream, I personally like bit more the variant sosreport-tux-123456-2018-01-10_08-13-55.tar.xz
due to sorting multiple reports from a day. But the proposed improvement is ok for me, it still does improve the current hard-to-read name. Kind regards, Pavel On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:56 PM, Jake Hunsaker <jhuns...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi list, > > There is currently a proposal upstream for sos to change the naming > pattern for sos tarballs (or more precisely, allowing distribution policies > to change it): > > https://github.com/sosreport/sos/pull/1175 > > > Specifically, for the RH family (currently there would be no change to any > other distros) this would change the tarball names from something like: > > sosreport-tux.123456-20180110142241.tar.xz > > to > > sosreport-tux-123456-2018-01-10-abcdefg.tar.xz > > > which I believe is easier on the eyes, and better for being able to > quickly reference sosreports especially when there are multiple sosreports > attached to a particular case. The 'abcdefg' at the end will be a random > 7-alpha character string. For example, instead of parsing through the full > date string, one can just say "look at sosreport qwertyu". > > > So I'm asking for feedback on making this change (or not). Particularly > interested if this has the potential to cause trouble with any > tooling/automation/etc anyone has in place for working with sosreports. > > > Thanks! > > - jake > > -- > Jake Hunsaker > Sr. Container and Virtualization Support Engineer > > _______________________________________________ > sos-devel mailing list > sos-devel@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/sos-devel >
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