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

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 03:25:19PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 14:31, Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden> 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
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