On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 07:49:36PM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote: > > so you skip downlaod if it already exists locally. IIUC it is looking > > in the CWD, which is presumably the directory the QEMU build is > > performed in ? > > Yes, build/test/pytest/bits-test > > > So if dev cleans their build tree, the cache is lost ? > > Yes. > > > > > Avocado has a more persistent cache outside the build tree IIUC. > > > > So that is why I have the environment variable mechanism for passing to > the test that will point to the location of the archives. The developer > can download the files there and point to the test. Or I can change the > scriprt accordingly if we know where we were downloading. We were > discussing submodules and it was fiercely hated. So mst suggested another > repo where to keep the binaries. My script that check out that repo > somewhere outside the build directory and point the test to that location. > > I have kept several options open. We just need to make some decisions. >
For now I would probably just have a script to fetch into source tree. -- MST
