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

[Stéphane Graber]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 06:07:32PM +0100, Chris Glass wrote:
> 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

Nope, that's fine. I've just been busy with other things at the moment.
I hope to have some time to go through github pull requests later today.

Btw, it's pretty likely that I'll postpone beta2 until tomorrow as I've
got a few more changes to lxc-download which I want to get in before
then.

> 
> 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,
> >>
> >> 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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Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
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