[IMPALA-3872] Add support for caching PyPi packages

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.7.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.8.0
• Component/s: Infrastructure
• Labels: asf
• Target Version: Impala 2.7.0
• Assignee: Tim Armstrong
• Reporter: Tim Armstrong
• Created: 18/Jul/16 19:56
• Updated: 08/Nov/16 16:00
• Resolved: 08/Nov/16 16:00

Description

As part of the ASF migration we're moving away from checking python packages into the repository, and instead downloading them via PyPi. We don't want to hit the PyPi servers for every build, so instead we should support a local cache or repository.