LXC OS Updates

[Ian Booth]

On 05/08/14 01:53, Matt Bruzek wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 4:26 AM, John Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Creating a template that never gets updated just isn't a great experience,
>> and we really need a way to refresh that core snapshot.
>>
>> John
>> =:->
>>
> I would like to second John's comment here.  We do need a good way for the
> user to easily get a new local cloud image if the existing one is getting
> old.
> 
> As a developer I know we can delete the lxc cache and Juju bootstrap will
> download a new cloud-image, but this is not something we would want a users
> to do.
> 

Indeed. This is being looked at already, see bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju-core/+bug/1329154


>>
> This proposal looks good and seems to address the concerns I have with the
> local update & upgrade.  How would this be implemented?  Would the
> variables pass the appropriate values to cloud-init?
> 

cloud init will just not have the apt commands inserted if the environment is
configured not to use them. This is how it is done now for disabling apt-get
commands when using lc clone.