Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 44/45] Fedora images: use URLs from stable "archives.fedoraproject.org"

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 10:07, Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 09:43:48AM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> > From: Cleber Rosa <address@hidden>
> >
> > The LinuxInitrd.test_with_2gib_file_should_work_with_linux_v4_16 test,
> > from tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py, is currently failing to fetch
> > the "vmlinuz" file.  The reason for the failure is that the Fedora
> > project retires older versions from the "dl.fedoraproject.org" URL,
> > and keeps them in "archives.fedoraproject.org".  As an added note,
> > that test uses a Fedora 28 image, because of the specific Linux kernel
> > version requirements of the test.
> >
> > For the sake of stability, let's use URLs from the archived and
> > supposedely ever stable URLs.  The good news is that the currently
> > supported versions are also hosted on the later.  This change limits
> > itself to change the URLs, while keeping the fetched files the same
> > (as can be evidenced by the unchanged hashes).
>
> FWIW, I commented on the oiriginal patch before seeing this PR.
> I don't think we should be using the archive URL for anything
> which still exists on download.fedoraproject.org as that's placing
> undesirable load on the Fedora master servers, instead of using its
> primary CDN via the mirror services.

Mmm; I think we should take this patch for the moment to fix
the Travis CI failures, though -- we can look at a more
careful choice of examples/URLs as a followup.

thanks
-- PMM