MAAS

  1. Bug #1664248
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 1664248

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Andres Rodriguez (andreserl) wrote : Re: On Ubuntu 14.04 with backports pocket disabled maas fails to boot the ephemeral image

@Tom,

All third party OS' are deployed with the latest LTS ephemeral image or the one that is default for commissioning.

There are multiple reasons why we always deploy a Ubuntu based OS' with the same ephemeral image. Examples:

1. If you deploy 'Trusty' with Xenial ephemeral on a hardware for which Trusty's default kernel does not include support for, then the deployment process will succeed, but the deployed machine won't work.

2. Similarly, if you deploy 'Zesty' with a Xenial ephemeral image, on a machine for which Xenial doesn't have drivers for, then the deployment process will fail altogether.

That said, I did a bit more digging and I need to correct my previous statement. MAAS/cloud-init/curtin do not support configuring 'components' nor 'sources' for the Ubuntu mirrors:

 * components = main, restricted, universe, multiverse
 * source = deb-src

Configuring pockets for the Ubuntu mirrors is supported though.

 * pockets = *-updates, *-security, *-backports

Changing this as a wishlist.