Re: [PATCH 1/8] Acceptance Jobs: preserve the cache for pip on GitLab CI

[Thomas Huth]

On 15/04/2021 23.51, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> The acceptance jobs (via `make check-venv`) will setup a virtual
> environment, and after that install packages defined in
> tests/requirements.txt via pip.
>
> Let's enable pip's default cache directory, so that we can save
> a bit on time/bandwidth.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
> ---
>   .gitlab-ci.yml | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
> index 52d65d6c04..9cc4676912 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ include:
>       key: "${CI_JOB_NAME}-cache"
>       paths:
>         - ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/avocado-cache
> +      - ~/.cache/pip

Did you check whether this works? AFAIK the cache directories have to be 
part of the project directory, see:

 https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/README.html#cache

We already tried to cache ~/avocado/data/cache in the past, but it did not 
work and we had to move the cache manually to the current working directory 
(see commit 5896c539547).

 Thomas