New image releases and image file names

Hi there, In the oVirt projects we're making some efforts to make it easy to get stuff up and running on top of oVirt. One of these efforts is maintaining a Glance server containing updated "cloud" VM images of various distros including, among others, Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu and Atomic. That Glance server is configured for use by default in all oVirt installations. Since upstream images can update quite often, we've made efforts to automate the process of polling the disro download servers for new images, and downloading them into Glance. In order to make images useful for users, we need to know various details like which OS version is in the image. Since every distro has got its own idea about how to organise the download server and name the files in it, we had to resort to regex-matching the image files to extract useful details about them. This is why its very frustrating to us when an upstream changes the way it names its image files. Especially when the files are named in a way that prevents keeping an orderly image archive. As a new CentOS Atomic image was recently released [1], we set about to getting that image uploaded to our Glance server. We found out the name of the new image file seems to be very different from how Atomic images used to be called. If seems the new image is called simply: CentOS-Atomic-Host-7-GenericCloud.qcow2 This is while older images were called something like: CentOS-Atomic-Host-7.1609-GenericCloud.qcow2 The newer name is useless as far as image version tracking goes. We would like to request that the new naming scheme would be restored, or at least some other scheme is created where its easy to automatically figure out the image versions. [1]: http://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2017/01/centos-atomic-jan17/ Thanks, -- Barak Korren bkorren(a)redhat.com RHCE, RHCi, RHV-DevOps Team https://ifireball.wordpress.com/