As part of the 4.20 rebase work, we aligned with upstream by adding a symlink to /providers, and updating the vendoring tooling to match. 

This was done to avoid ending up building code that is out of sync with the local changes, and to make future rebases more straight forward, as we reduce the likelihood of merge conflicts. (/providers is it's own go module)

Unfortunately, this is not compatible with the way we do hermetic builds in konflux, so we need to find an alternate approach


- Can we turn off vendoring? And use a replace in go.mod? 
- Can we solve this upstream, is there appetite to remove the symlink and make the provider similar to other ones

For 4.20 we have turned off hermetic builds IIUC: https://github.com/openshift-eng/ocp-build-data/pull/7444 

4.20

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