resources.ovirt.org directory layout is a mess

Sandro Bonazzola sbonazzo at redhat.com
Tue Mar 28 11:21:31 UTC 2017


On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Eyal Edri <eedri at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Martin Sivak <msivak at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just noticed we have couple of different places for the same kind of
>> content (packages):
>>
>> /pub/ - includes new releases and snapshots repos
>>
>
> This is the official place for oVirt releases and what any user should use.
> The official repositories
>
>
>> /repos/ovirt/{experimental,tested}/ - experimental seems pretty close
>> to snapshots
>>
>
> Experimental - internal repo for CI, no one should use it.
> Tested - official verified repos with packages that passed OST, we
> recommend anyone to use that repo if he wants latest and greatest packages
> and can't wait to an official release
>

If it's now official, please move it to /pub. /repos is not meant to be
used for official public content. /repos was meant to host internal,
development, temporary, backup repos.



> Snapshots - from next week, ovirt-snapshot-master will be a nightly
> snapshot of tested repo, this is ideal for QE or anyone who wants to test
> oVirt, but can't have the repo refreshed all the time.
>
>
>> /releases - old releases
>>
>
> We don't maintain this, probably kept for history purposes
>
>
>>
>> The /repos prefix by itself is incredibly messy, there are bunch of
>> private directories and ovirt among them.
>>
>
> Please open a ticket on jira.ovirt.org with details and we'll look into
> it, but I don't think that each directory on a release server should matter.
> There is official documentation for oVirt users and release rpms which
> provides you with exactly which repos you should use.
>
> We do need to add documentation on what each repo means and its usage, can
> you please open a ticket on it so we won't forget?
>
>
>>
>> Can you please unify the structure so it is easier to navigate? We
>> should at least have one top level dir for all official public
>>
>
>
>
>> content.
>>
>> Something like
>>
>> /ovirt/{releases,experimental,tested}/<version>/<arch>
>>
>> and
>>
>> /ovirt/yum-repos/release.rpm
>>
>>  would work well enough I think.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Martin
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>
>
>
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