Call 'apt-get update' only once per run

[DenisBY]

Why not to use something like semaphore or flag to call 'apt-get update' only once per job run? What the reason to call it on each pkg.installed or pkg.latest?

[DenisBY]

I found

def __gen_rtag():
    '''
    Return the location of the refresh tag
    '''
    return os.path.join(__opts__['cachedir'], 'pkg_refresh')

but how to use it? I see apt-get update for each state with pkg.* during one job run

[mitar]

I just wanted to open such ticket. This is really bad. It slows down the whole process. We have many packages in our states which we want to have pkg.latest with refresh set to true. And then it does apt-get update so many times that sometimes our IP gets blocked from repositories. :-(

[jfindlay]

@DenisBY, @mitar, thanks for reporting. It seems that the pkg_refresh logic in the state module may not be working if the cache is regenerated for every state run.

[mitar]

If I understand the latest state, based on #34098, if refresh is not set at all, then apt-get update is called only once per run? And with #34914 one can set cache_valid_time to configure how long to cache, if one does use refresh set to true?

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