osmo-gsm-tester[master]: jenkins-run: Provide a link to the latest trial archived

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Neels Hofmeyr gerrit-no-reply at lists.osmocom.org
Tue May 2 11:23:44 UTC 2017


Patch Set 2:

> - Be able to run the latest trial manually.

it's a bit cumersome to 'ls -1t | head -n 1' but we could also add a command line option to osmo-gsm-tester.py to do this automatically.

 > - If the list of trials is accessible via ssh, ftp or http, give
 > users who want to get the latest trial a unique reference/link.

The problem is that with concurrent runs, there isn't really a concept of a latest trial. I would discourage scripts from launching a trial and then assuming that the latest trial dir is the one they should look at. Instead, there should be a safe way to know which trial run was launched... What other use case is there than wanting to run a fairly recent set of binaries manually?

I get the intention and I would love to be able to just accept this, but the more I think about it the more I don't like the side effects it's introducing...

For example, what if a manual run tries to point the latest symlink back at itself? and so on... we need to safeguard and work around it. If we just have no such symlink, all problems disappear, and we still have other easy ways to implement the use case for a 'latest' link, right?

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