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[Jeff Marcom <jeff.marcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/04/2012 09:46 AM, Scott Moser wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, Andres Rodriguez wrote:
>
> > Hi Jeff,
> >
> > I'm new to MAAS, and at the moment I'm on an isolated network. Is there any
> > > available documentation supporting the use of local mirrors for repos?
> > > Also, I see that MAAS seemingly has hard coded values to use for precise,
> > > are there any workarounds available for installing different releases?
> > Currently, MAAS only supports the deployment of Precise. However, I believe
> > the support will be added for the next MAAS release.
> >
> > Now, as far as supporting a mirror, MAAS itself currently doesn't support
> > changing the default mirror, but should also be possible in the next MAAS
> > release. However, you can still do this by manually editing a file. This
> > file is:
> >
> > /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/maas_proxy
> >
> > You would have to update the obtions that look like:
> >
> > d-i     mirror/country string manual
> > d-i     mirror/http/hostname string archive.ubuntu.com
> > d-i     mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu
> >
> > To something like:
> >
> > d-i     mirror/country string manual
> > d-i     mirror/http/hostname string 102.168.1.1/path/to/archive
> > d-i     mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu
> >
> > Furthermore, MAAS has a proxy for deb mpackages. If you wish to disable it,
> > you could do so by removing the following line from the same file above:
> >
> > d-i     mirror/http/proxy string http://@@server@@:8000/
> >
> > Hope this information helps. Also note that this will be changed in the
> > next MAAS release as support will be added.
> There is a question on this topic at [1].
> Note, cloud-init will very annoyingly overwrite these settings.
>
> The solutions there aren't fully baked.  The answer there by 'Michael' is
> incorrect, as preseed values do not append.  And apparently my answer to
> him didn't work, although i would have expected it to.
>
> The bug opened for this as
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1006966 .
>
> imo fully offline mirrors being fully functional is requirement for
> quantal maas.
>
> --
> [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/144393/how-to-let-maas-cloud-init-client-select-internal-mirror
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