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Re: Avocado notes from KVM forum 2019
From: |
Gerd Hoffmann |
Subject: |
Re: Avocado notes from KVM forum 2019 |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:15:53 +0100 |
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NeoMutt/20180716 |
> > 1) Working offline
> >
> > Various people complained Avocado requires online access, and they would
> > like to use it offline.
> >
> > Maintainer workflow example is:
> >
> > - run avocado
> > - hack QEMU, build
> > - git pull
> > - build
> > - hack QEMU
> > (go offline)
> > - hack QEMU
> > - build
> > - run avocado <- FAILS
> >
>
> Ouch. This shouldn't happen even with no explicit --offline
> option. Failure to download artifacts shouldn't make tests
> report failure.
Related (and already discussed in the past): There should be a separate
"downloads artifacts", especially for larger ones which easily fail to
download on slower internet links due to hitting the test timeout while
downloading ...
cheers,
Gerd