On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 10:07, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 09:43:48AM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote: > > From: Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com> > > > > 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
