From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

We are going to remove obsolete assets from the cache, so keep
the time stamps of the assets that we use up-to-date to have a way
to detect stale assets later.

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20251014083424.103202-2-thuth@redhat.com>
---
 tests/functional/qemu_test/asset.py | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/functional/qemu_test/asset.py b/tests/functional/qemu_test/asset.py
index f666125bfaf..ab3a7bb591d 100644
--- a/tests/functional/qemu_test/asset.py
+++ b/tests/functional/qemu_test/asset.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 import os
 import stat
 import sys
+import time
 import unittest
 import urllib.request
 from time import sleep
@@ -113,6 +114,16 @@ def _wait_for_other_download(self, tmp_cache_file):
         self.log.debug("Time out while waiting for %s!", tmp_cache_file)
         raise
 
+    def _save_time_stamp(self):
+        '''
+        Update the time stamp of the asset in the cache. Unfortunately, we
+        cannot use the modification or access time of the asset file itself,
+        since e.g. the functional jobs in the gitlab CI reload the files
+        from the gitlab cache and thus always have recent file time stamps,
+        so we have to save our asset time stamp to a separate file instead.
+        '''
+        self.cache_file.with_suffix(".stamp").write_text(f"{int(time.time())}")
+
     def fetch(self):
         if not self.cache_dir.exists():
             self.cache_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
@@ -120,6 +131,7 @@ def fetch(self):
         if self.valid():
             self.log.debug("Using cached asset %s for %s",
                            self.cache_file, self.url)
+            self._save_time_stamp()
             return str(self.cache_file)
 
         if not self.fetchable():
@@ -208,6 +220,7 @@ def fetch(self):
             tmp_cache_file.unlink()
             raise AssetError(self, "Hash does not match %s" % self.hash)
         tmp_cache_file.replace(self.cache_file)
+        self._save_time_stamp()
         # Remove write perms to stop tests accidentally modifying them
         os.chmod(self.cache_file, stat.S_IRUSR | stat.S_IRGRP)
 
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