Re: [PATCH] test: Remove unused distro images

[Yumei Huang <yuhuang@redhat.com>]

Just sent a new patch to fix the broken link. Tested on my test
machine, and all images got downloaded successfully.
 Please help review, thanks!

On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 18:19:51 +1000
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 10:02:19AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 17:09:57 +1000
> > > David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 02:09:21PM +0800, Yumei Huang wrote:
> > > > > Some of the download links are broken, and none of the images are
> > > > > used in current tests. Removing them so it won't block make.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Yumei Huang <yuhuang@redhat.com>
> > > >
> > > > Ah, sorry.  I realised I forgot some information when I suggested you
> > > > make this change.
> > > >
> > > > Although we're not using these images at the moment, we hope to use
> > > > them again some time in future.  For that reason it's useful to keep
> > > > the information about what the images were and how they worked in
> > > > place.
> > > >
> > > > So, rather than removing this completely, it would be better to keep
> > > > the {DEBIAN,...}_IMGS variables and the download targets, but just
> > > > don't include them in DOWNLOAD_ASSETS for now.  That will make it
> > > > easier to put a fixed version of this back when we're ready.
> > >
> > > My suggestion from a couple of days ago:
> > >
> > >   https://archives.passt.top/passt-dev/20250820134427.6a16ad19@elisabeth/
> > >
> > > was rather that we update the links. Not many of them are broken, and
> > > it would be valuable to have test/distro working again. Is that
> > > unfeasible for some other reason?
> >
> > Not in principle, I think.  It is, however, pretty miserable for me to
> > test: even before the links broke it was achingly slow for me to
> > download all the images in Australia.  Don't know what it's like in
> > China.
>
> I guess it's similar: if you have mirrors nearby, then it's fast,
> otherwise it's slow.
>
> I actually ran all this (without your changes to cache things, so
> downloading every time) on a machine in Beijing a few years ago, and
> most downloads were very fast (all the Debian ones at least), some
> other ones (some of the old Fedora ones, I think) pretty slow.
>
> > This was just the fastest way to stop this being a blocker for
> > anyone new to the project.
>
> Sure, that's the most important thing. We can proceed in two ways, I
> guess:
>
> 1. we go ahead and apply this and make it my priority to fix the rest
>    myself (old Fedora downloads are slow for me as well, but I don't
>    care that much)
>
> 2. Yumei gives it a try with fixing download links, if it's doable from
>    China, and after that (probably) broken tests. If it's not doable, 1.
>    is absolutely fine!
>
> ...let me know if 2. might make sense.
>
> --
> Stefano
>


-- 
Thanks,

Yumei Huang