On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Robert Mayr <robyd...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > 2016-08-31 17:00 GMT+02:00 Adam Miller <maxamill...@fedoraproject.org>: >> >> Hello all, >> It was requested from members of the Fedora Cloud WG that we >> provide a persistent URL that will always offer up the latest Two Week >> Atomic Host release from Fedora. >> >> Initially I wrote some code that would handle this in the Two Week >> Atomic script[0] but dgilmore brought up a good point that this >> removes our ability to easily track what compose any given "latest" >> image downloaded at various points of time actually is since it would >> overwrite the images in-place (we could maintain a listing of >> checksums but that's not ideal). What was then proposed and I like >> better is to offer a web endpoint that would do two things: >> >> 1) Serve up the latest image for the different image types (something >> like getfedora.org/atomic/latest/$IMAGE_TYPE) >> >> 2) A simple URL endpoint that would return the actual image name that >> is the 'latest' for use by people who want to write scripts to >> automate and verify the images. (something like >> getfedora.org/atomic/latest/$IMAGE_TYPE/filename) >> >> The needed data is already provided via fedmsg by the Two Week Release >> and is used to populate download links for the Atomic page[1] so >> hopefully this won't be too much work. I'm also willing to do the work >> and just submit the code for review but would like some guidance and >> feedback on the topic in general. >> >> Thank you, >> -AdamM >> >> [0] - >> https://pagure.io/fork/maxamillion/releng/c/9a49e6cfc8ee1b23dc383cbf527b896a49bd6a9e >> [1] - https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/download/atomic.html >> -- >> websites mailing list >> websites@lists.fedoraproject.org >> >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/websites@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > I think this is very specific and would be used by just a few people, but I > might be wrong. > Adding this kind of images just for scripting is probably too much for a > website which is a brochure website. I would rather host them somewhere > else, if you need to have a static URL which always has the latest image. > Getfedora has them, and it's good to keep them with the whole path, date > included. > I would also like to see what the plan is for Atomic, because if we need to > rewrite the cloud pages because Atomic is going to be primary, then we > should not write anything before this happens, IMHO. > Thanks. >
If this isn't something that should be done with the website, then we might be able to handle with download.fedoraproject.org, I'll ping the Infra Team. -AdamM > -- > Robert Mayr > (robyduck) -- websites mailing list websites@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/websites@lists.fedoraproject.org
