[Avocado-devel] Implement fetch-assets command line

[Willian Rampazzo]

By the way, here is the thread in qemu-devel
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-09/msg03743.html .

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 9:17 AM Willian Rampazzo <wrampazz at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 5:09 AM Amador Pahim <amador at pahim.org> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 9:49 AM Lukáš Doktor <ldoktor at redhat.com> wrote:
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> > > Hello guys,
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> > > what a nice discussion. But before you start, what lead you to pick this card? It's one of the nice-to-have-ideas card and we have plenty of well-defined-and-useful cards that also needs attention, so unless you have a real-world usage, I'd probably suggest to focus on something you can directly benefit from. (unless you have other interest in eg. learning something, or other kind of interest).
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> > Fair point. A RFC would do some good here.
> >
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> My fault not bringing the reason for this card up to the discussion.
> As far as I'm concerned, qemu had some problems with tests timing out
> while downloading huge images with restricted bandwidth in their CI.
> There was a discussion where Cleber was involved in the qemu-devel
> list about it and a workaround was to disable those tests. One of the
> options discussed was to have a command that would fetch the assets
> prior to the test start, or not related to the test, so the download
> does not count on test timeout. This is, yet, one from the various
> requests related to assets that would benefit them. As qemu tests
> consist of single string parameters on their fetch_asset calls, with
> at least the simple parser item introduced to Avocado, qemu can
> re-enable those tests that were failing due to asset download timing
> out the test. Cleber may have some more details about the whole
> discussion.