desi.lbl.gov config change may have broken desiutil unit tests

[sbailey]

when running pytest:

====================================================== FAILURES =======================================================
_____________________________________________ TestInstall.test_verify_url _____________________________________________

self = <desiutil.test.test_install.TestInstall testMethod=test_verify_url>

    def test_verify_url(self):
        """Test the check for a valid svn URL.
        """
        options = self.desiInstall.get_options(['-v', 'desispec', '0.1'])
        out = self.desiInstall.get_product_version()
        url = self.desiInstall.identify_branch()
        self.assertTrue(self.desiInstall.verify_url())
        self.desiInstall.product_url = 'http://desi.lbl.gov/no/such/place'
        with self.assertRaises(DesiInstallException) as cm:
>           self.desiInstall.verify_url()
E           AssertionError: DesiInstallException not raised

py/desiutil/test/test_install.py:205: AssertionError

This failure is new after the desi.lbl.gov reconfig today; the test passed in the nightly integration tests ~3am PDT on July 20.

[weaverba137]

Could you say a bit more about the environment this test was run in?

[sbailey]

I initially discovered it while testing a new conda environment at NERSC, then verified that it also fails on my laptop, and it failed in the standard desi master environment cronjob tests last night. e.g.

source /global/cfs/cdirs/desi/software/desi_environment.sh master
cd $DESIUTIL
pytest py/desiutil/test/test_install.py
...
        self.desiInstall.product_url = 'http://desi.lbl.gov/no/such/place'
        with self.assertRaises(DesiInstallException) as cm:
>           self.desiInstall.verify_url()
E           AssertionError: DesiInstallException not raised

py/desiutil/test/test_install.py:205: AssertionError

I would expect that it would also fail on your local machine or your own checkout of desiutil at NERSC; I haven't found anywhere that it does work since the desi.lbl.gov Cloudflare changes yesterday.

[weaverba137]

OK. Just in case, could you also give the Python version?

[sbailey]

Current default that you would get from cutting-and-pasting the above: python 3.6.6

My laptop default environment: python 3.6.7

Test environment where I first discovered the problem: python 3.8.3