667055 - rpm builds are piling up in latest-* directories on stage

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Because our rpms include the build id in the filename, they don't simply overwrite the current rpm in the latest dirs on stage. 

e.g.

http://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/

It looks like the files get purged eventually when they hit the global retention threshold, but we should really only have one rpm per linux arch in each latest dir.

My preference here would be to strip the build id out of the rpm filename for the copy going to latest. That could probably be done using post_upload.py.

We'll also need to clean out the older rpm files from all the latest-* dirs on stage.

Comment 1

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

Attachment: fixit

I don't even care if they end up in latest-$branch.  I guess I could have that pref go all the way to the platform dict in config.py, but I don't think that is worthwhile.

Comment 2

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Comment on attachment 541863 [details] [diff] [review]
fixit

I'm personally fine with this change, given that the rpms are meant to be consumed via the repo. John, you'll need to monitor for feedback on this to see if community members have started relying on having rpms under latest-* though.

Oh, and don't forget to clean up the existing rpms from the latest-* dirs.

Comment 3

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Comment on attachment 541863 [details] [diff] [review] [review]
> fixit
> 
> I'm personally fine with this change, given that the rpms are meant to be
> consumed via the repo. John, you'll need to monitor for feedback on this to
> see if community members have started relying on having rpms under latest-*
> though.

Ok, filed bug 667910 to figure out how many people have downloaded these files

> Oh, and don't forget to clean up the existing rpms from the latest-* dirs.

Will do!

Comment 4

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

Done.  Cleaned up straggling June 28 rpms in the process.