CI network flakiness:
```ERROR: Could not install ...
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12/06/2021, 6:00 PMCI network flakiness:
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ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='<http://files.pythonhosted.org|files.pythonhosted.org>', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /packages/04/80/cad93b40262f5d09f6de82adbee452fd43cdff60830b56a74c5930f7e277/wheel-0.37.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (Caused by NewConnectionError('<pip._vendor.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7fa3771642d0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable'))h
hundreds-father-404
12/06/2021, 6:23 PMProbably nothing we can do about this right?
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12/06/2021, 6:36 PMYeah unless we mirrored PyPi somewhere with better network access. I tried to see if GitHub had a PyPi mirror, but didn’t find anything.
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12/06/2021, 6:37 PMAnd caching the pip download directory probably wouldn’t save any time on CI given time to save/restore the cache
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12/06/2021, 6:38 PMAt Foursquare, we used to “freeze” the set of wheels used for a particular resolve and stored them in our own storage. (Probably S3 but I forget exactly what.)
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12/06/2021, 6:38 PMbut then we also maintained our own PyPi mirror for use internally so we avoided much of the problems with using a public repo