From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: passt.top; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: passt.top; dkim=pass (1024-bit key; unprotected) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b=RagukMA2; dkim-atps=neutral Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.129.124]) by passt.top (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F34C45A0278 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:39:40 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1757331579; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=+CmXtLjwSBmNSUDs3UmQwApei54AUIHCB9THvT1ptKA=; b=RagukMA2GaE+Ar/EJzCMwQeuu115qe3DjNL+6RJ4IFBRVXv2t5kK/I0oKnmkZrU+eIJ9OA OBMvp9itkN2g7al2uD5OirI3X1hupnGJxdYeGt1p3v1HAQgF2J34moSwW13b9ZnfMAk9J1 VDjBMYl8wtP+04mpjVh4VDK36f4g33c= Received: from mail-ed1-f71.google.com (mail-ed1-f71.google.com [209.85.208.71]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-39-1MoXB4udP9yzx-36RKQeNg-1; Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:39:38 -0400 X-MC-Unique: 1MoXB4udP9yzx-36RKQeNg-1 X-Mimecast-MFC-AGG-ID: 1MoXB4udP9yzx-36RKQeNg_1757331577 Received: by mail-ed1-f71.google.com with SMTP id 4fb4d7f45d1cf-61e1636aff1so5277890a12.0 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:39:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1757331577; x=1757936377; h=content-transfer-encoding:cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=+CmXtLjwSBmNSUDs3UmQwApei54AUIHCB9THvT1ptKA=; b=sBawqoPr6YXbLTO+wG955GuosKYZINYfwRW5PDJBk58jpA/SihAGkY/y0niQviIgfl NzgEMNoL0eA1aLwVDMuXSXJDKiOskYB+GrCo5ksbkeiSlwinuihtFTGsbGsFmLdAPhvg c2V576tiw3vz0/gm77mtOxO1uF190lxfryjy0+8/IMpJ4MjyoeQ64TZrt49lj1DtKNYF n5xv1UDAXJT3GJSudZzGhGePXcAABJ1K9CegRrC83/xKhmN56a8fDS7pmx8bvQBjbkN8 qWSZYL+qePhwSckUXyErr4ySw6aZS3QnIjvpKtdhiKv/Sc9EgR6leB48MRTTrrIFVM8D d8tQ== X-Forwarded-Encrypted: i=1; AJvYcCWZVmW9Yf64dEkaRq2yqaJ/bvu79AFwUeu5/ltZse2yVCGWnNroufOMh5dY19EY/HhUDeEAjBYPUkM=@passt.top X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0Ywpbt0sp9j88vbh6VIjTT6C3XAhaDn3tyxxJpmQ8eM6l96wVghx SJj8oHSMf6dX9lMJU6OIsPweWEu/jdwVBtW1XdMeUchxDA5EXaVbhKQKu/tY4SBOAJ4VmbMALaI IVGGfkmcoYtbO1tx/MFQWFMKrJGkpap6+U3yesn4QA4XgA0DXv7F2Ayw+tL8P0s3aJ1htHz0ai0 jAgHZotGueMoZ0xbAy+fVKHEimgRdf X-Gm-Gg: ASbGncviHal+YfnQ+JVQ07dEEUCd+iKuXMQrun7+t3mQy+PI05gx+a8HKzA3MkWYxY0 +nf/pJnZi4ywupA/ry15tXzEgIBeAqt6OEI+HO7nua/v9EwwrFAnQ/eXyr8UJF4P/RtBpXQU7sO O71JpNIEE8QFLFAqgCcCYpdg== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6402:3554:b0:62a:91d5:885d with SMTP id 4fb4d7f45d1cf-62a91e4cf48mr1159445a12.16.1757331576841; Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:39:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IEBZHTPPTlIpcEN3vWLFvXqpETS4ddAFd0/ktEjUKMji4wmvkEpTVKSVECe4scWGp1knqoTDIhMG6pB+Y2WRm0= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6402:3554:b0:62a:91d5:885d with SMTP id 4fb4d7f45d1cf-62a91e4cf48mr1159423a12.16.1757331576317; Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:39:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20250908060921.13839-1-yuhuang@redhat.com> <20250908100219.552134a0@elisabeth> <20250908112328.1be76e36@elisabeth> In-Reply-To: <20250908112328.1be76e36@elisabeth> From: Yumei Huang Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 19:39:25 +0800 X-Gm-Features: AS18NWB-Jx8RnpGZ6rzz7AAmEU4FAS_G8XF7lv5tkXHdAc1e4qVmjdrEO8b4uy8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: Remove unused distro images To: Stefano Brivio X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-MFC-PROC-ID: pXb3ijNYSFDpIh_o_Hy0GMAi6KWXWdGiKMlcC3MCjek_1757331577 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID-Hash: SC6TLORFVVAWQM2J5PDMZ2O2MB7GDA27 X-Message-ID-Hash: SC6TLORFVVAWQM2J5PDMZ2O2MB7GDA27 X-MailFrom: yuhuang@redhat.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: David Gibson , passt-dev@passt.top, dgibson@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.8 Precedence: list List-Id: Development discussion and patches for passt Archived-At: Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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=E2=80=AFPM Stefano Brivio = wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 18:19:51 +1000 > David Gibson 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 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 > > > > > > > > Ah, sorry. I realised I forgot some information when I suggested y= ou > > > > 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 kee= p > > > > the information about what the images were and how they worked in > > > > place. > > > > > > > > So, rather than removing this completely, it would be better to kee= p > > > > 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@elisab= eth/ > > > > > > 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 > --=20 Thanks, Yumei Huang