I've added "latest" symlinks alongside the existing "current" on cdimage.ubuntu.com (e.g. http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/daily-live/latest/). The intent of this is that "latest" will continue always pointing to the very latest build, while "current" will point to the latest build that has passed automatic smoke-tests. The latter is not yet implemented, so "current" is always the same as "latest" right now, but I hope to get this working soon.
If you maintain tools that need to get hold of the very latest image regardless of smoke-testing - an obvious example would be the smoke-testing tools themselves - then please update your configuration to point to "latest" rather than "current". Otherwise, you should not need to make any changes, and the only observed difference once we get the test integration up and running should be that there are fewer days when the current image is an obvious dud. The test integration will probably be via an ssh trigger executed by Jenkins at the end of a successful test. Of course this only works for Canonical-maintained flavours where we run automatic smoke-testing of images, and a test system run by somebody else wouldn't be able to ssh to the relevant machine to update the symlink. However, that isn't to say that we couldn't fall back to polling a URL occasionally for status, or something along those lines. If you do QA work on a community flavour and think that this is something you could set up, please talk to me about your requirements and I'll be happy to see what we can do. If an image has no smoke-testing configured for it, then the "current" symlink will just carry on as it is. Finally, as an implementation detail, "current" may sometimes need to be a directory rather than a symlink, for example in the case where only some architectures pass smoke-testing. Hopefully nobody is relying on this since you can't tell the difference between a directory and a symlink to a directory over HTTP anyway and can only tell via rsync, but if you are relying on this, you should stop. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
