On 04/09/12 15:46, 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 In the certification team we are starting to investigate MAAS as our provisioning method. Our set up is no different from many companies and/or datacenter, where everything is under a firewall, with very little access to the outside world. Thanks, Ara > > -- > [1] > http://askubuntu.com/questions/144393/how-to-let-maas-cloud-init-client-select-internal-mirror > > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maas-devel Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maas-devel More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
