Add a note explaning why we disable yum repos

Change-Id: I0e156a793e77fcfd9f2f32bfb25dcabfc239d8a9
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Logan V 2019-05-22 07:33:23 -05:00
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commit 1495735a93

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@ -77,6 +77,16 @@ function execute_ansible_playbook {
# NOTE(mhayden): CentOS images in the gate have several slow mirrors enabled
# by default. This step ensures that only the base and updates
# repositories are enabled.
#
# NOTE(logan): Due to the way Ansible's yum module works, we should leave all
# except these two repos globally disabled. See the link below for more info:
# https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/26995#issuecomment-392288700
#
# Rather than enabling repos globally, we can use the yum repository module to
# selectively pull in packages from other repos (ie. extras, EPEL, RDO, etc.)
# on an as-needed basis in the roles where they are required using includepkgs.
# See the example here:
# https://opendev.org/openstack/openstack-ansible-lxc_hosts/src/commit/a6cae27fa3e6d03b48ba34468df4af90c77f4880/tasks/lxc_install_yum.yml#L46-L58
if [[ -x /usr/bin/yum-config-manager ]] && [[ -e /etc/centos-release ]]; then
sudo yum-config-manager --disable \* > /dev/null
sudo yum-config-manager --enable base > /dev/null