Re: [PATCH] tests/acceptance: Disable tests dependent of unreliable apt.armbian.com

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 07:01:22PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 9/17/20 6:53 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > On 17/09/2020 18.39, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> >> Armbian servers are not very reliable and confused the GitLab CI
> >> users a few times this month (path updated, archives moved, and
> >> now the SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED "certificate has expired"
> >> error). Time to disable these tests.
> >> Users can still use the artifacts from the cache (or manually add
> >> them to the cache).
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>  tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py | 10 ++++++++++
> >>  tests/acceptance/replay_kernel.py      |  2 ++
> >>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
> > 
> > These failures in the Gitlab-CI are quite annoying, indeed.
> 
> I'd rather not go via this path, but since we don't save the
> artifacts cache, I can't find a better way to not block all
> the other developers using GitLab CI.

Well, we would need to cache them somewhere, either on qemu.org,
or maybe have a download job in ci which publishes them on
qemu.gitlab.io (gitlab pages).

> But I prefer we disable the tests until something better
> emerge, rather that having the developers stopping running
> these tests. So this is a quick band-aid patch.

Yep, lets disable them until we have a solution.

Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

take care,
  Gerd