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Caches and offline mode
Since retrieving and transforming operating system image files, git repositories, Python or Ruby packages, and so on can be a significant overhead, we cache many of the inputs to the build process.
The cache location is read from DIB_IMAGE_CACHE. developing-elements describes
the interface within disk-image-builder for caching.
When invoking disk-image-builder, the --offline option
will instruct disk-image-builder to not refresh cached resources.
Alternatively you can set DIB_OFFLINE=1.
Note that we don't maintain operating system package caches, instead depending on your local infrastructure (e.g. Squid cache, or an APT or Yum proxy) to facilitate caching of that layer, so you need to arrange independently for offline mode. For more information about setting up a squid proxy, consult the TripleO documentation.
Base images
These are cached by the standard elements - ../elements/fedora/README,
../elements/redhat-common/README, ../elements/ubuntu/README,
../elements/debian/README and ../elements/opensuse/README.
source-repositories
Git repositories and tarballs obtained via the ../elements/source-repositories/README element will be
cached.
PyPI
The ../elements/pypi/README element will bind mount a PyPI
mirror from the cache dir and configure pip and easy-install to use
it.