releases reorganization

[Mike Burns]

On 03/27/2013 08:46 AM, Mike Burns wrote:
> On 03/26/2013 12:15 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
>> Hello Mike,
>>
>> I think that we should split the nightly between two:
>>
>> 1. nightly stable - the next z stream candidate. 2. nightly next -
>> the next minor candidate.
>>
>> This will enable user to fetch pre-releases of z streams easily when
>> setting up nightly repository. Currently as all going into same
>> directory, having nightly repository pulls next minor with all its
>> issues.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> I have no strong objections other than the fact that I don't think we
> should be making so many changes in the released branches that require
> constantly updating packages in a nightly.  If you think it's necessary,
> I don't object, though.
>
> As for the setup, this is more in Eyal and Ofer's domain I think.  They
> maintain the deployment of rpms from jenkins into the nightlies.

perhaps instead of nightly-stable, how about something like updates-testing?

Mike
>
> Mike
>
>>
>> Alon
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Mike Burns" <mburns at redhat.com> To: "infra"
>>> <infra at ovirt.org> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 3:02:27 PM Subject:
>>> releases reorganization
>>>
>>> With the beta release of 3.2 EL6 rpms, I had to re-organize the
>>> releases area a bit.  Previously, the stable, beta, and alpha
>>> directories were symbolic links to the top level 3.2 or 3.1
>>> directories.  Because EL6 is part of 3.2, but not considered
>>> "stable" yet, I needed a way to handle that.  The result:
>>>
>>> Top level 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, etc directories contain src, iso, rpm,
>>> and tools directories.  The rpm directory will contain *all*
>>> distributions that are available for that release, whether beta,
>>> alpha, or stable.
>>>
>>> releases ├── 3.2 │   ├── iso │   ├── rpm │   │   ├── EL │   │   │
>>> └── 6 │   │   │       ├── i686 │   │   │       ├── noarch │   │   │
>>> ├── repodata │   │   │       │   └── repomd.xml │   │   │       ├──
>>> SRPMS │   │   │       └── x86_64 │   │   └── Fedora │   │       ├──
>>> 17 -> ../../../3.1/rpm/Fedora/17 │   │       ├── 18 │   │       │
>>> ├── i686 │   │       │   ├── noarch │   │       │   ├── repodata │
>>> │       │   │   └── repomd.xml │   │       │   ├── SRPMS │   │
>>> │   └── x86_64 │   │       └── 19 -> 18 │   ├── src │   └── tools
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The beta, alpha, and stable symlinks are now real directories
>>> containing symlinks for iso src and tools.  The rpm directory
>>> contains symlinks to the appropriate stable release for the
>>> version.
>>>
>>> releases └── stable ├── iso -> /var/www/html/releases/3.2/iso ├──
>>> rpm │   └── Fedora │       ├── 17 ->
>>> /var/www/html/releases/3.1/rpm/Fedora/17 │       └── 18 ->
>>> /var/www/html/releases/3.2/rpm/Fedora/18 ├── src ->
>>> /var/www/html/releases/3.2/src └── tools ->
>>> /var/www/html/releases/3.2/tools
>>>
>>> releases ├── beta │   ├── iso -> ../3.2/iso │   ├── rpm │   │   ├──
>>> EL -> ../../3.2/rpm/EL │   │   └── Fedora -> ../../3.2/rpm/Fedora/
>>> │   ├── src -> ../3.2/src │   └── tools -> ../3.2/tools
>>>
>>>
>>> I've made these changes already due to requests from some
>>> developers who couldn't find the EL6 rpms under 3.2.  If we want to
>>> change this model, then let me know.  Otherwise, I'll add this
>>> documentation to the wiki.
>>>
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