openwisp / openwisp/openwisp-utils

[chores] CI bots: cache dependencies

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Since Mar 17, 2026.

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Description

The bots always reinstall all the dependencies they need at each run, a huge waste of resources (hardware, network bandwidth, energy, time). We need to cache the dependencies, for the pip deps we can use setup.py for the hash so if anything changes there the cache is invalidated.

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