[Avocado-devel] Avocado notes from KVM forum 2019

[Gerd Hoffmann]

> > 1) Working offline
> > 
> > Various people complained Avocado requires online access, and they would
> > like to use it offline.
> > 
> >   Maintainer workflow example is:
> > 
> >   - run avocado
> >   - hack QEMU, build
> >   - git pull
> >   - build
> >   - hack QEMU
> >   (go offline)
> >   - hack QEMU
> >   - build
> >   - run avocado <- FAILS
> > 
> 
> Ouch.  This shouldn't happen even with no explicit --offline
> option.  Failure to download artifacts shouldn't make tests
> report failure.

Related (and already discussed in the past):  There should be a separate
"downloads artifacts", especially for larger ones which easily fail to
download on slower internet links due to hitting the test timeout while
downloading ...

cheers,
  Gerd