Proposal: Fedora 21+ image naming scheme

[Andre Robatino]

On 09/03/2014 10:13 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:

>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_fedora_image_naming_policy
> 
>> Is there a reason the order of the name components couldn't be more
>> similar to the download directory structure? For example, old pungi
>> images were named like Fedora-20-i386-DVD.iso, corresponding to
>> $VERSION/$ARCH (and $IMAGETYPE comes last since both of these, DVD and
>> netinst, are in the same dir). So, in
>> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/21-Alpha-TC5/Workstation/i386/iso/
>> , instead of Fedora-Workstation-netinst-i386-21-Alpha-TC5.iso, what
>> about Fedora-21-Alpha-TC5-Workstation-i386-netinst.iso? This is
>> basically the same as the old naming in the case of install images
>> (except for the new $PRODUCT field).
> 
> the naming was decided by Adam with minimal input from me. doing what
> you are proposing is quite a bit of extra work. we actually feed in
> Fedora-Workstation as a single option on the CLI. I really do not see
> what it gains us.  Can you please try to better explain why you feel we
> should change it now?

How about Fedora-Workstation-21-Alpha-TC5-i386-netinst.iso? Same as the
download directory order, except for the placement of the $PRODUCT
field, and essentially the same as the old naming order, so less
confusing to users.



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