[lxc-users] Older Ubuntu Template - Natty 11.04

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <list at fajar.net> wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 8:19 AM, TuxRaiderPen
> <tuxraiderpen at wpascanner.com> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, May 06, 2014 20:47:24 Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
>>
>>> The root cause of the problem is not the template. You'll have the
>>> same proble installing on a VM (e.g. using CD image). See
>>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/91815/how-to-install-software-or-upgrade-fro
>>> m-old-unsupported-release
>>
>> Yeah... I figured as much for the system once I got it installed, as I've got
>> several actual physical ones I did that to...
>>
>>> For lxc, the workaround would be to create a new template based on the
>>> old one, with the change mentioned on the link (i.e. ubuntu archive
>>> location)
>>
>> OK..
>>
>> I
>>
>> sudo cp lxc-ubuntu lxc-oldbuntu
>>
>> sudo kate lxc-oldbuntu
>>
>> Chage line 240 to:
>>
>>     case $2 in
>>       amd64|i386)
>>             MIRROR=${MIRROR:-http:/old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu}
>>             SECURITY_MIRROR=${SECURITY_MIRROR:-http://old-
>> releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu}
>>             ;;
>>       *)
>
> That's not the only place to change.
>
>> So something is not using that line for the minimal to start???
>
> correct. Arguably it's a bug in ubuntu template. Find
> download_ubuntu() and add this
>
> ...
> download_ubuntu()
> {
>     MIRROR=http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
> ...


Scratch that. The current template should work without any changes if
you specify --mirror.

# lxc-create -n natty-test -t ubuntu -- -r natty --mirror
http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu


-- 
Fajar