instead of suffixing fedora version in tags, suffix the alt-tag or `latest`

[noahdotpy]

Currently my tags look something like this for the alt-tags set as only stable:

# bluefin-dx:stable
Tags: [
    "40",
    "20240715-40",
    "stable",
    "0cb40ac-40",
]

The generated tags for latest channel of this same image is this:

# bluefin-dx:latest
Tags: [
    "40",
    "20240715-40",
    "latest",
    "0cb40ac-40",
]

As you can see there is very major overlap

Latest and stable are on the same fedora version but are actually quite significantly different (see announcement of stable tag for bluefin)

I think it would be better if the tags were like this instead, with everything suffixed with -stable (aka the alt-tag chosen:

# removed the 40 tag
Tags: [
    "20240715-stable",
    "stable",
    "0cb40ac-stable",
]

[xynydev]

I was initially shocked because I thought we'd specced out every overlap. But now I'm just thinking: if latest and stable is the same version, why do you care about having separate tags?

I guess in my view the textual/numbered version tags are equivalent, with the textual ones being aliases to the numbered ones, but you are using them to mean something else?

[noahdotpy]

So in bluefin/aurora the stable tag is pretty much latest but with a gated kernel (from CoreOS stable), and it builds weekly.

The stable tag is the same fedora version as latest, but is actually different with some stuff.

I will probably end up just disabling the latest tag building anyway.

Maybe we should, instead of -40 have -stable?

[noahdotpy]

more info can be found on the bluefin 3.0 release announcement on discourse

[gmpinder]

Yeah I didn't really take into account using the same version number on the same image. Yeah I'm thinking that the proposed set of tags is the best way to handle this kind of thing. Then we can go back to having the timestamp tag but with -alt-tag tacked onto it.

[gmpinder]

We would still want to fully replace latest in the list of tags

[gmpinder]

This will need to wait until https://github.com/blue-build/cli/pull/197 is merged in.

[gmpinder]

@qoijjj as a heads up for future tag changes.

[noahdotpy]

How would it handle multiple alt-tags, would it do a tag with every alt-tag listed?

[xynydev]

I think it would just create xxx-alt-tag-one and xxx-alt-tag-two separately. If you want a tag with multiple alt-tags listed, you don't want multiple alt-tags.