Re: Publishing raw generic{,cloud} images without tar, and without compression, plus versionning of point releases

[Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>]

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 07:50:26PM -0700, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> We'd either need to find the common requirements for all providers (eg AWS
> requires 256MiB free), or limit the reduction to the generic images.

Free, when and where?  Our file-system grow stuff runs pretty early in
the boot process.  And accessing filesystems OOB before it even runs is
tricky, given our partition layout.

> > So I end up doing things like this:
> > $ openstack image list --format value -c Name | grep debian-10
> > debian-10.0.1-20190708-openstack-amd64.qcow2
> > debian-10.0.2-20190721-openstack-amd64.qcow2
> > debian-10.0.3-20190815-openstack-amd64.qcow2
> > debian-10.1.0-openstack-amd64.qcow2
> > debian-10.1.2-20190925-openstack-amd64.qcow2
> > debian-10.1.5-20191015-openstack-amd64.qcow2
> > debian-10.1.6-20191114-openstack-amd64.qcow2
debian-10.10.0-xxxxxxxx-openstack-amd64.qcow2
debian-10.11.0-xxxxxxxx-openstack-amd64.qcow2
> > debian-10.2.0-openstack-amd64.qcow2
debian-10.20.0-xxxxxxxx-openstack-amd64.qcow2
> > debian-10.3.0-openstack-amd64.qcow2
> > debian-10.3.2-20200406-openstack-amd64.qcow2
> > debian-10.4.0-openstack-amd64.qcow2

You have variable length identifiers in there.  There generic sorting
becomes weird.

Bastian

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