Re: [PATCH 05/10] tests/avocado: use more distinct names for assets

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 8/12/23 20:09, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> Avocado's asset system will deposit files in a cache organized either
> by their original location (the URI) or by their names.  Because the
> cache (and the "by_name" sub directory) is common across tests, it's a
> good idea to make these names as distinct as possible.
>
> This avoid name clashes, which makes future Avocado runs to attempt to
> redownload the assets with the same name, but from the different
> locations they actually are from.  This causes cache misses, extra
> downloads, and possibly canceled tests.

Could it be clever to use the content hash for asset location?

> Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
> ---
>   tests/avocado/kvm_xen_guest.py  | 3 ++-
>   tests/avocado/netdev-ethtool.py | 3 ++-
>   2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)