[lxc-devel] Pull request: make ubuntu templates apt proxy aware

[Chris Glass]

Should I post the patch to this list instead or is it simply that
nobody had time to look at it yet?
I don't mean to sound pushy at all (sorry if I do), I'm just trying to
contribute "the right way" :)

Thanks

- Chris

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Chris Glass <chris.glass at canonical.com> wrote:
> (gmail is messing with my signature, that'll teach me to use the web interface)
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Chris Glass <chris.glass at canonical.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> Here are the changes I was referring to in my previous email thread -
>> these changes make the ubuntu templates aware of squid-deb-proxy
>> servers visible to the host.
>>
>> https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/134
>>
>> squid-deb-proxy uses avahi to advertise itself, and so installing
>> squid-deb-proxy-client on the LXC host lets apt autodetect proxy
>> settings. With this path the proxy settings are consumed by LXC when
>> both debootstrapping a new image and inside the container itself.
>>
>> This makes deploying similar environments (on a development machine
>> for example, in a CI lab, or for example using juju) *much* faster.
>> One could achieve similar results by setting APT_PROXY or HTTP_PROXY
>> when running lxc-create, but the advantage of this patch is that it's
>> completely automatic.
>>
>> The cost for people not using squid-deb-proxy is negligible, this
>> patch therefore adds the hook to the default ubuntu and ubuntu-cloud
>> templates.
>>
>> Note: this requires "dbus," to be added to the
>> /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/lxc/start-container apparmor profile as
>> Stephane suggested in the previous thread (if not using the PPA
>> packages).
>>
>>
>> Hope this can be as useful for other people as it has been for me so far,
>>
>> - - Chris
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