On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:30 PM Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 05:02:33PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > I think the problem with the Fedora acceptance is that we'll be constantly
> > chasing a moving target. Every URL we pick will go away 6-12 months later.
> > IOW, while the acceptance test pass today, in 6 months time they'll be
> > failing.  IOW,  switching to F32 doesn't solve the root cause, it just
> > pushs the problem down the road for 6 months until F32 is EOL and hits
> > the same URL change problem.
> >
>
> Just FIY, the tests will not FAIL when the images are removed from the
> official locations.  This is what happens Today:
>
>    JOB ID     : e85527a9d75023070f15b833eac0f91f803afc83
>    JOB LOG    : 
> /home/cleber/avocado/job-results/job-2020-12-03T12.21-e85527a/job.log
>     (1/1) tests/acceptance/boot_linux.py:BootLinuxX8664.test_pc_q35_kvm: 
> CANCEL: Failed to download/prepare boot image (0.33 s)
>    RESULTS    : PASS 0 | ERROR 0 | FAIL 0 | SKIP 0 | WARN 0 | INTERRUPT 0 | 
> CANCEL 1
>    JOB HTML   : 
> /home/cleber/avocado/job-results/job-2020-12-03T12.21-e85527a/results.html
>    JOB TIME   : 0.76 s
>

In the CI, enabling the GitLab cache will help, but will also hide the
URL change problem when it happens.

It is also true if the person ran the test and it successfully
downloaded the image once. For people running the test for the first
time, it will look like your output.


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