.github/workflows: feed hive-eest fixtures from cache instead of per-run CDN download

.github/workflows/test-hive-eest.yml

@@ -149,12 +149,13 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout Hive
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
-          # EXPERIMENT: pinned to erigontech/hive yperbasis/client-pool, which
-          # is the upstream-PR-ready (ethereum/hive#1449) warm-daemon client
-          # pool. Revert to ethereum/hive + steps.hive-version.outputs.ref
-          # once that PR lands; until then we ride this fork.
+          # EXPERIMENT: pinned to erigontech/hive yperbasis/client-pool — the
+          # upstream-PR-ready warm-daemon client pool (ethereum/hive#1449), which
+          # now also carries local-fixtures support for the eels
+          # consume-engine/consume-rlp simulators (merged via erigontech/hive#2).
+          # Revert to ethereum/hive + steps.hive-version.outputs.ref once upstream.
           repository: erigontech/hive
-          ref: a3c9afd9ada800efc41c0287d66f7d083684d3cb
+          ref: 9afe5f15a37136fa57f2b2055d1d6c69c681aa16
           path: hive
 
       - name: Conditional Docker Login
@@ -240,12 +241,37 @@ jobs:
             fi
           fi
           retry 3 go build . >> buildlogs.log
+      # Provide EEST fixtures locally so the eels sim build doesn't re-download
+      # them every run. Restore the base-branch cache warmed by
+      # cache-warming-eest-fixtures.yml (restore-only — never saved here); on a
+      # miss, fetch via the hardened tools/test-fixtures.sh. Then stage the
+      # tarball into the sim build context, where the (local-fixtures) eels
+      # Dockerfile extracts it for `consume --input /fixtures`.
+      - name: Restore EEST fixtures cache
+        id: eest-cache
+        uses: actions/cache/restore@v5
+        with:
+          path: |
+            test-fixtures-cache/eest_stable.tar.gz
+            test-fixtures-cache/eest_devnet.tar.gz
+            test-fixtures-cache/eest_benchmark.tar.gz
+            test-fixtures-cache/eest_zkevm.tar.gz
+          key: test-fixtures-eest-${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('erigon-full/test-fixtures.json') }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            test-fixtures-eest-${{ runner.os }}-
+
+      - name: Download EEST fixtures on cache miss
+        if: steps.eest-cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: bash erigon-full/tools/test-fixtures.sh --download-only erigon-full/test-fixtures.json test-fixtures-cache ${{ matrix.fixtures-tarball }}
+
+      - name: Stage fixtures into hive eels sim build context
+        run: cp "test-fixtures-cache/${{ matrix.fixtures-tarball }}.tar.gz" "hive/simulators/ethereum/eels/${{ matrix.sim }}/fixtures.tar.gz"
+
       # Depends on the last line of hive output that prints the number of suites, tests and failed
       # Currently, we fail even if suites and tests are too few, indicating the tests did not run
       # We also fail if more than half the tests fail
       - name: Run hive tests and parse output
         run: |
-          fixtures_url=$(jq -r --arg t '${{ matrix.fixtures-tarball }}' '.[$t].url' erigon-full/test-fixtures.json)
           branch=$(jq -r --arg t '${{ matrix.fixtures-tarball }}' '.[$t].branch // empty' erigon-full/test-fixtures.json)
           branch_arg=""
           if [ -n "$branch" ]; then
@@ -261,7 +287,7 @@ jobs:
             # image-build/registry/clone failure); a completed run is judged on its first result.
             local attempt=1 max_attempts=3
             while true; do
-              ./hive -docker.output -docker.auth --sim ethereum/eels/"${1}" --sim.limit="${2}" --sim.parallelism=12 --client.pool.size=${{ matrix.pool-size }} --client erigon --docker.nocache=true --sim.limit.exact=false --sim.buildarg fixtures="${fixtures_url}" ${branch_arg} ${{ matrix.extra-hive-flags }} 2>&1 | tee output.log || true
+              ./hive -docker.output -docker.auth --sim ethereum/eels/"${1}" --sim.limit="${2}" --sim.parallelism=12 --client.pool.size=${{ matrix.pool-size }} --client erigon --docker.nocache=true --sim.limit.exact=false --sim.buildarg fixtures=/fixtures ${branch_arg} ${{ matrix.extra-hive-flags }} 2>&1 | tee output.log || true
               status_line=$(tail -2 output.log | head -1 | sed -r "s/\x1B\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z]//g")
               suites=$(echo "$status_line" | sed -n 's/.*suites=\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p')
               if [ -z "$suites" ]; then