[Sugar-devel] [Systems] New ASLO Bundles on the Mirror

[Sam P.]

On Wed Jan 07 2015 at 10:44:40 am James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 12:24:47AM +0000, Sam P. wrote:
> > On Wed Jan 07 2015 at 8:54:19 am James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> >     On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:39:06PM -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> >     > +sugar-devel
> >     >
> >     > On 01/06/2015 04:52 AM, Sam P. wrote:
> >     > > Hi All,
> >     > >
> >     > > I was wondering about the possibility of putting the new
> >     > > ASLO bundles on the download.sl.o mirror.  I was going to
> >     > > put them into a separate folder (named "activities2"), so
> >     > > there may be duplication from the old ASLO bundles,
> >     > > resulting in more space usage.  This will hopefully be short
> >     > > term :)
> >     >
> >     > Go ahead, all our mirrors should be fine carrying a few
> >     > hundred MBs of data. However, I don't believe you for a moment
> >     > when you say it's going to be short term ;-)
> >
> >     Activity bundles?  One could also run hardlink(1) on the two
> >     trees, which would eliminate the duplication.
> >
> > I use a different file system structure to the old ASLO.  It is very
> > different, because the old ASLO uses it's own IDs whereas I use
> > bundle IDs.
>
> Is it so different that the bundle .xo file content is different?
>
> Why?  That would mean an .xo downloaded from old ASLO would be
> different to .xo downloaded for new ASLO, right?
>

 Well, the bundles should have the same contents as their old ASLO
counterparts.  Assuming the activity author builds the bundle from git
using only setup.py, they will be the same.  I could compute hashes of all
the old ASLO bundles and link them, but I think we miss lots of potential
to use the buildbots.  For example, I will start inserting the repository
field in all activities that do not have it yet, as well as a url pointing
to the download page on the new ASLO.

But that is only 1/2 the bundles.  For every commit that the bots are
notified about, the new ASLO builds a bundle as a development/latest copy.
These are available in the new ASLO UI as devel version bundles.  I plan to
purge these on a cron job, so there is only 1 on the sugarlabs servers for
each activity.  But this does mean that we have lots of bundles that are
not on the old ASLO.
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