diff --git a/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml b/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml
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index 017a95bf69..0000000000
--- a/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml
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@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-# This playbook syncs a *subset* of the production lookaside cache to stg.
-# bochecha asked for this in 2015 -- implemented by ralph.
-#
-# Adjust in 2016 to copy specific sets of packages.  See lookaside.yml for that.
-
-
-- name: tar up a subset of the prod lookaside cache
-  hosts: pkgs
-  user: root
-  vars_files:
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/global.yml
-   - "/srv/private/ansible/vars.yml"
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml
-
-  vars:
-    tarball: /var/tmp/prod-lookaside-subset.tar.xz
-    intermediary: /var/tmp/prod-lookaside
-    target: /srv/cache/lookaside/pkgs
-
-
-  tasks:
-  - debug: var=packages
-  - file: dest={{tarball}} state=absent
-  - shell: tar -cJvf {{tarball}} {{target}}/{{packages}}
-           creates={{tarball}}
-  - fetch: src={{tarball}}
-           dest={{intermediary}}
-           fail_on_missing=yes
-
-- name: copy and expand that subset to staging lookaside
-  hosts: pkgs-stg
-  user: root
-  vars_files:
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/global.yml
-   - "/srv/private/ansible/vars.yml"
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml
-
-  vars:
-    tarball: /var/tmp/prod-lookaside-subset.tar.xz
-    intermediary: /var/tmp/prod-lookaside
-    target: /srv/cache/lookaside/pkgs
-
-  tasks:
-  - unarchive: src={{intermediary}}/pkgs02.phx2.fedoraproject.org/{{tarball}} dest=/
-
-- name: finish cleaning up after ourselves
-  hosts: batcave01.phx2.fedoraproject.org:pkgs:pkgs-stg
-  user: root
-  vars_files:
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/global.yml
-   - "/srv/private/ansible/vars.yml"
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml
-
-  vars:
-    tarball: /var/tmp/prod-lookaside-subset.tar.xz
-    intermediary: /var/tmp/prod-lookaside
-    target: /srv/cache/lookaside/pkgs
-
-  tasks:
-  - file: dest={{intermediary}} state=absent
-    tags: cleanup
-  - file: dest={{tarball}} state=absent
-    tags: cleanup
diff --git a/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside.yml b/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside.yml
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--- a/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside.yml
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-# Run staging sync for lookaside on a couple different package sets.
-
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=audit
-#- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=basesystem
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=bash
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=coreutils
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=cronie
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=curl
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=dhcp
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=dnf
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=e2fsprogs
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=filesystem
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=glibc
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=grubby
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=hostname
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=httpd
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=initscripts
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=iproute
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=iputils
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=kbd
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=less
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=man-db
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=mariadb
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=ncurses
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=openssh
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=parted
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=passwd
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=php
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=plymouth
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=policycoreutils
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=procps-ng
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=rootfiles
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=rpm
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=selinux-policy
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=setup
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=shadow-utils
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=sudo
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=systemd
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=uboot-tools
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=util-linux
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=vim
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=google-noto-fonts
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=google-noto-cjk-fonts
-- include: /srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside-include.yml packages=google-noto-emoji-fonts