[Maas-devel] Help trying to use a local mirror for installs using MAAS.

[Jeff Marcom]

On 08/31/2012 12:12 PM, Andres Rodriguez wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> I'm new to MAAS, and at the moment I'm on an isolated network. Is there any
>> available documentation supporting the use of local mirrors for repos?
>> Also, I see that MAAS seemingly has hard coded values to use for precise,
>> are there any workarounds available for installing different releases?
>>
> Currently, MAAS only supports the deployment of Precise. However, I believe
> the support will be added for the next MAAS release.
>
> Now, as far as supporting a mirror, MAAS itself currently doesn't support
> changing the default mirror, but should also be possible in the next MAAS
> release. However, you can still do this by manually editing a file. This
> file is:
>
> /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/maas_proxy
>
> You would have to update the obtions that look like:
>
> d-i     mirror/country string manual
> d-i     mirror/http/hostname string archive.ubuntu.com
> d-i     mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu
>
> To something like:
>
> d-i     mirror/country string manual
> d-i     mirror/http/hostname string 102.168.1.1/path/to/archive
> d-i     mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu
>
> Furthermore, MAAS has a proxy for deb mpackages. If you wish to disable it,
> you could do so by removing the following line from the same file above:
>
> d-i     mirror/http/proxy string http://@@server@@:8000/
>
> Hope this information helps. Also note that this will be changed in the
> next MAAS release as support will be added.
>
> Cheers.
>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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>
Thank you this certainly does help.