Raring ephemeral info not available on https://maas.ubuntu.com/images/

[Raphaël Badin]

Raring support was added a few days ago (trunk: https://code.launchpad.net/~andreserl/maas/raring_support and 1.2: https://code.launchpad.net/~andreserl/maas/maas-1.2-raring-support) but now maas-import-ephemerals breaks because it's failing to dowload:
https://maas.ubuntu.com/images/query/raring/ephemeral/released-dl.current.txt

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

we plan on getting raring daily images available soon.
This bug shows a few issues that maas has:
a.) someone had to "enable" raring. Maas should use python-distro-info to get a list of available releases. It should just assume that it supports everything newer than precise that is "released". Having hard coded lists in maas (or any package) means pointless SRUs have to be made every 6 months.
b.) installation is not tied to ephemeral images. These two things really are completely disjoint. The failure above shouldn't matter.
We will have daily images of raring ephemeral available lsoon, but will not have 'released' until closer to release.

Also note, that this is easily worked around by configuration by doing:

echo "RELEASES='precise quantal'" | sudo tee -a /etc/maas/import_ephemerals

[Raphaël Badin (rvb)]

Thanks for the clarification Scott.

> a.) someone had to "enable" raring. Maas should use python-distro-info to get a list of available releases. It should just assume that it supports everything newer than precise that is "released". Having hard coded lists in maas (or any package) means pointless SRUs have to be made every 6 months.
> b.) installation is not tied to ephemeral images. These two things really are completely disjoint. The failure above shouldn't matter.

I agree that we should improve the download script to fix the two issues you mention.

> We will have daily images of raring ephemeral available lsoon, but will not have 'released' until closer to release.

All right, I'm going to put a hack in the integration tests that we will keep until we have the images.

[Raphaël Badin (rvb)]

Update: we've disabled the download of raring images until this is fixed (https://code.launchpad.net/~rvb/maas/bug-1115178/+merge/148219).

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

It looks fixed to me now, I'll reverse this change.

[Raphaël Badin (rvb)]

Thanks for fixing this Julian!

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Julian, re-instating raring here breaks maas-import-pxe-files because the arm port is not available yet. See bug 1115175

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

On Tuesday 07 May 2013 17:21:18 you wrote:
> Thanks for fixing this Julian!

It wasn't exactly hard :)

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

On Tuesday 07 May 2013 23:31:02 you wrote:
> Julian, re-instating raring here breaks maas-import-pxe-files because
> the arm port is not available yet. See bug 1115175

Arm is not enabled by default so I think this is ok.