regression: vm-builder lacks --security-mirror option

[Bryan McLellan]

VMBuilder has a --mirror option but no --security-mirror option like u-v-b had. Thus now that there is a new kernel security update for intrepid, every build starts downloading a 23MB file from security.ubuntu.com.

Workaround is to modify /etc/vmbuilder/ubuntu/sources.list.tmpl on the host to point to a local mirror. (or use --templates)

Note that I believe this is a non issue if you have the security repository in the same location as your mirror, i.e.

http://ubuntu.example.org/ubuntu intrepid
http://ubuntu.example.org/ubuntu intrepid-security

[Nick Barcet (nijaba)]

Thanks Bryan, sounds like some serious SRU material.

  importance high
  status confirmed

[Nick Barcet (nijaba)]

Fix committed in rev 273 of https://code.launchpad.net/~nijaba/vmbuilder/installmirror

[Soren Hansen (soren)]

We have all of these now:
    --mirror=URL Use Ubuntu mirror at URL instead of the default, which
                        is http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu for official
                        arches and http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports
                        otherwise
    --install-mirror=URL
                        Use Ubuntu mirror at URL for the installation only.
                        Apt's sources.list will still use default or URL set
                        by --mirror Config option: install_mirror
    --security-mirror=URL
                        Use Ubuntu security mirror at URL instead of the
                        default, which is http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
                        for official arches and http://ports.ubuntu.com
                        /ubuntu-ports otherwise. Config option:
                        security_mirror
    --install-security-mirror=URL
                        Use the security mirror at URL for installation only.
                        Apt's sources.list will still use default or URL set
                        by --security-mirror Config option:
                        install_security_mirror