On 03/27/19 16:25, 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 :-(
Mistery solved! Thank you very much for responding! Laszlo
