[sos-devel] Changing sosreport tarball names

[Jake Hunsaker]

Hi list,

There is currently a proposal upstream for sos to change the naming 
pattern for sos tarballs (or more precisely, allowing distribution 
policies to change it):

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/pull/1175


Specifically, for the RH family (currently there would be no change to 
any other distros) this would change the tarball names from something like:

sosreport-tux.123456-20180110142241.tar.xz

to

sosreport-tux-123456-2018-01-10-abcdefg.tar.xz


which I believe is easier on the eyes, and better for being able to 
quickly reference sosreports especially when there are multiple 
sosreports attached to a particular case. The 'abcdefg' at the end will 
be a random 7-alpha character string. For example, instead of parsing 
through the full date string, one can just say "look at sosreport qwertyu".


So I'm asking for feedback on making this change (or not). Particularly 
interested if this has the potential to cause trouble with any 
tooling/automation/etc anyone has in place for working with sosreports.


Thanks!

- jake

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Jake Hunsaker
Sr. Container and Virtualization Support Engineer