What about an interim solution - create an (ISO?) with some base packages - especially for the released (3.6) binaries, that will not change as often as master and can be used? So even if some are outdated - at least it's some of them and not all of them. And we can update that ISO with newer content once ... a month or a quarter or so. Y.
Here are other forms for the same idea: 1. Create a repo VM image 2. Make the test VMs with a pre-seeded yum cache. 3. Make the test VM images be pre-installed wit everything you may ever need The common thing about all theses solutions they are test-environment/application specific (You are talking specifically about oVirt here. Lago is already used for other things, and hopefully will be used for more) and not suitable as a generic Lago core capability. I think we will need to try out and implement multiple solutions before we land on something generally useful, in the meantime its better to make tests and CI work faster, so I strongly +1 this move. -- Barak Korren bkorren@redhat.com RHEV-CI Team