> On 28 Feb 2017, at 12:49, Barak Korren <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 28 February 2017 at 13:04, Michal Skrivanek
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Don’t we have a cache around it?
>> whitelist is hard to maintain. We do not track every packaging change in 
>> CentOS
>> 
> 
> Yes it is cached, but even with a cache CentOS contains mountains of
> stuff we don't need and just slows things down. An yes, the white list
> can be hard to maintain.
> 
> The thing is that the way OST is built currently it pre-syncs
> everything it needs and then runs the tests themselves offline.

Shouldn’t be a problem to have a full cache of all CentOS packages on the same 
host or somewhere close for CI. We do not need a different sync for subsequent 
runs.

> Because of this we need to maintain lists of what is needed anyway.
> This offline operation feature is something some people find very
> useful, so we're probably not going to remove it any time soon,

No, I wouldn’t want to remove that. Sure. But if it keeps the cache then why 
would it take a long time to sync once you do the initial first run?

> despite the difficulty of maintaining the white lists.
> 
> -- 
> Barak Korren
> [email protected]
> RHCE, RHCi, RHV-DevOps Team
> https://ifireball.wordpress.com/

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