[Chicken-janitors] #1477: chicken-install cache does not know if an egg has tests

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#1477: chicken-install cache does not know if an egg has tests
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 Reporter:  sjamaan                 |                 Owner:
     Type:  defect                  |                Status:  new
 Priority:  major                   |             Milestone:  5.0
Component:  core tools              |               Version:  5.0
 Keywords:  chicken-install, cache  |  Estimated difficulty:  easy
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 If an egg is already in cache, it will not be downloaded again even if you
 run `chicken-install -test` later. This means the tests won't be run if
 you fetched it without tests before (as chicken-install thinks there are
 no tests).

 Example:

 {{{
 $ chicken-install -retrieve bind
 bind located at /home/peter/.chicken-install/cache/bind
 $ chicken-install -test bind
 .... <installs, but no tests are run> ....
 }}}

 Actually, this also happens when retrieving an egg implicitly when you
 install it for the first time without `-test` and then re-install it with
 `-test`.

 Either we need to somehow record if the egg was retrieved with or without
 tests, and re-retrieve it if the tests are missing, or simply make `-test`
 implied when fetching the egg.

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Ticket URL: <https://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1477>
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