[sos-devel] Changing sosreport tarball names

[Pavel Moravec]

As I expressed in upstream, I personally like bit more the variant

sosreport-tux-123456-2018-01-10_08-13-55.tar.xz

due to sorting multiple reports from a day. But the proposed improvement is
ok for me, it still does improve the current hard-to-read name.


Kind regards,
Pavel

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:56 PM, Jake Hunsaker <jhunsake at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Jake Hunsaker
> Sr. Container and Virtualization Support Engineer
>
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