On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 03:25:19PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 14:31, Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> wrote: > > ... Which in turn raises the question: *before* Peter reported the "xz" > > failure first, against my series, at > > > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg05452.html > > > > what image had Peter been using? Because, as far as I see it, at > > that point there was *no* way for the OpenBSD build test to succeed, > > *regardless* of my series. The compiler must not have been available. > > The tests/vm scripts cache the downloaded image. So my setup > presumably has the old image cached and is continuing to use it. > This is good for speed and avoiding lots of downloads, but it > looks like it's had the unfortunate side effect that nobody > noticed the breakage because everybody doing tests already > had the old image in their local cache and wasn't using the > broken new image :-(
Perhaps the VM test scripts should do a "HEAD" request for the image every time to discover if it has been changed on the server, before honouring the local cache. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|