Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.1 v3 00/12] bundle edk2 platform firmware with QEMU

[Laszlo Ersek]

Hi Peter,

can you please comment:

On 03/22/19 10:17, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 03/22/19 08:02, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Le ven. 22 mars 2019 00:33, Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden> a écrit :
>>
>>> On 03/21/19 23:32, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>>>
>>>> Cool, so let me try this. I'm going to download the xz.old file
>>>> manually. Rename it to just xz. It will then match the built-in
>>>> checksum, and will be used as a cached copy. Then I will try building my
>>>> series in *that* ("old") VM.
>>>
>>> Summary:
>>>
>>> (1) The image file at
>>> <http://download.patchew.org/openbsd-6.1-amd64.img.xz> has been recently
>>> uploaded ("Last-Modified: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:48:18 GMT") by someone
>>> unknown to me, and its sha256sum doesn't match the sha256sum in the
>>> "tests/vm/openbsd" test script.
>>>
>>> This is why my earlier attempts at the OpenBSD build test have failed.
>>>
>>
>> Can someone include Fam/Paolo/Brad in this thread please? (I don't have
>> their emails in my cellphone). Thanks.
> 
> Done.

- do we have any idea what happened on download.patchew.org (i.e. why
the image matching the script was replaced with an image not matching
the script)?

>>> And in fact I don't understand how it could work for anyone else -- the
>>> compiler that the "tests/vm/openbsd" script specifies is neither
>>> installed, nor available with "pkg_add", in this image.
>>>
>>>
>>> (2) Against the "old" image
>>> <http://download.patchew.org/openbsd-6.1-amd64.img.xz.old>, which indeed
>>> has the expected
>>> sha256sum=8c6cedc483e602cfee5e04f0406c64eb99138495e8ca580bc0293bcf0640c1bf,
>>> the build test *does* succeed.
>>>
>>> (
>>>
>>> In order to make use of the old image, it has to be downloaded manually,
>>> then moved/renamed to:
>>>
>>>   $HOME/.cache/qemu-vm/download/bc4733f6c6e76931702528a515a1bf70eb8baecd
>>>
>>> because the last filename component must be the sha1sum of the URL
>>> itself, for the caching mechanism to recognize the compressed image:
>>>
>>>> $ echo -n 'http://download.patchew.org/openbsd-6.1-amd64.img.xz' \
>>>>   | sha1sum
>>>> bc4733f6c6e76931702528a515a1bf70eb8baecd  -
>>>
>>> )
>>>
>>> I'm attaching the log of the successful OpenBSD build test, which I
>>> captured with "screen" (see the "BUNZIP2" lines in it, in particular).

- are you satisfied with the OpenBSD build testing I did (using the
"old" image, matching the script)?

Thanks
Laszlo