Public bug reported: during the commissioning of a node when the install image is used for pxe boot it uses archive.ubuntu .com for the mirror. this is fine if your network is on the internet. in an offline setup I have the repo mirrored. when the installer does not find archive.ubuntu.com it prompts for the ip of the mirror. it fails to find the mirror. however watching the access logs for apache on which I had the mirror setup, it never tries to access it.
the workaround was I setup dnsmasq to point archive.ubuntu.com to my local server. all worked as expected. a possible better solution is to have maas use apt-cacher-ng by default to act as a the mirror. that way as more nodes are commissioned the packages will not have to be downloaded again. this also solves my problem since the default mirror for commissioning could be ip address of the maas master node, if that is what one would call it. Apt-cacher-ng also also has the ability to do complete mirrors of the repos. ** Affects: maas (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1032183 Title: maas commission repository mirror To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/maas/+bug/1032183/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs