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RE: [Xen-devel] Keep last 3 nightly builds (tarballs) around ifpossible?

To: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Keep last 3 nightly builds (tarballs) around ifpossible?
From: Paul Larson <pl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:34:20 -0500
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On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:18 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > Was wondering if it would be possible to keep around more 
> > than one day's worth of unstable (and possibly testing) 
> > tarballs? Perhaps 2, or even 3?
> 
> Are you talking src, binaries or both?
> 
> I've updated the script to rename the previous night's builds to
> xen-2.0-install.1.tgz  the night before to .2 etc. It keeps the last
> three builds.
> 
> I guess I should probably switch to using dates as snapshot identifiers,
> but that requires more thought.
Dates for the archived copies would be great, but if possible, it would
be really nice if we could keep a consistent name for the latest
snapshot.  That makes automation quite a bit simpler.

-- 
Thanks,
Paul Larson
pl@xxxxxxxxxx
IBM Linux Technology Center

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