[CentOS-devel] Stream ISO retention

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 12:58 PM Carl George <carl at redhat.com> wrote:

> There isn't a policy per say, we just rsync the ISOs that pungi
> generates, with the delete flag.  It may be tempting to suggest "just
> don't use the delete flag", but that is unreasonable from a disk space
> perspective.  I just checked the latest compose and the isos directory
> totals 27GB.  We are doing new composes roughly weekly.  Generating an
> extra 27GB worth of files every week, for ourselves and all mirrors,
> doesn't sound appealing.
>

As a project who mirrors your content, I agree, this would not work in the
long run :-)


> Would a "latest" symlink be useful, even if there is only one set of
> ISOs available?  Are you actually interested in getting the previous
> ISOs, or do you just want a download URL that doesn't change?
>

Yes, I think that would be the best option. It would work for a variety of
automation tools as well. Please do the same with the checksum file.

Thanks!


> On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 11:56 AM Lance Albertson <lance at osuosl.org> wrote:
> >
> > What is the current policy for Stream ISO's? It seems that it's
> currently only one week which is problematic when trying to maintain your
> own packer templates and having to constantly update the filename and
> checksums. It seems as though long term, this method doesn't bode well for
> maintainability.
> >
> > Would it be possible to do one of the following?
> >
> > 1. Offer a filename symlink to the "current" build?
> > 2. Offer an ISO that exists longer than a week?
> > 3. Host archived ISOs on vault (or somewhere else) with some saner
> retention
> >
> > Thanks-
> >
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