Ubuntu version drop-downs don't reflect contents of the PXE config file

[Chris Glass]

When selecting a subset of available Ubuntu releases in /etc/maas/import_pxe_files, it would be useful to have the dropdowns in http://<Maas IP>/MAAS/settings/ reflect that restriction.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install MaaS from the server install CD
2. On first login, run "sudo maas createsuperuser", start up squid-deb-proxy etc...
3. Edit /etc/maas/import_pxe_files, with i.e. RELEASES="saucy"
4. Import PXE images
5. Finish installation
6. Login to the MaaS UI

What happens:
The settings page has "12.04" selected by default for both the "comissionning" and "ubuntu" steps. This results in a non functionning MaaS by default since the images have not been downloaded (see step 3.)

What should happen:
One of the available distribution is selected by default. In the case where only one series is available, that serie is selected.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

We talked about this recently at the sprint. We're going to be moving that config file completely into the UI, so I'll link this bug to the blueprint that discussed it.

[Chris Glass (tribaal)]

Thanks for your quick answer!

Out of curiosity, what is the incentive to move this information to the UI? That is the kind of "slow moving" setting I would expect to find in a config file as a user, but maybe I'm old fashioned.
Again, I'm fine with the UI, it's just curiosity :)

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

On 07/11/13 18:11, Chris Glass wrote:
> Thanks for your quick answer!
>
> Out of curiosity, what is the incentive to move this information to the UI? That is the kind of "slow moving" setting I would expect to find in a config file as a user, but maybe I'm old fashioned.
> Again, I'm fine with the UI, it's just curiosity :)
>

We want it to be set as part of cluster acceptance, since you have to go
into the UI to do that anyway. It makes more sense to unify the
settings right there and then and stick them all in the database.

So eventually, you'll config up the cluster right before accepting it,
and as soon as it's accepted it'll start downloading ephemerals.

[Blake Rouse (blake-rouse)]

This has been fixed in 1.7, when we moved the image importing into the region controller.