On 03/27/19 16:30, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > 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.
"curl -I" can do that. (Sorry if that's obvious -- I'm mentioning it because I used "curl -I" myself manually, as part of the earlier "investigation".) Thanks Laszlo
