hpvsa-update ppa has no xenial packages

[Andreas Hasenack]

maas 2.3.0-6434-gd354690-0ubuntu1~16.04.1

I selected "Enable the installation of proprietary drivers (i.e. HPVSA)" in maas settings page, and the machine deployment failed. Investigation of the installation output showed this:

Err:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/hp-iss-team/hpvsa-update/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
  404 Not Found

Turns out then when that drivers option is selected, maas adds the ppa:hp-iss-team/hpvsa-update PPA to the system, but it's out of date. It seems totally unmaintained, as it has only precise (!!), raring (!) and trusty packages, but no xenial ones.

[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

HP has dropped the support for hpvsa, and as such, marking this as wont fix.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Shouldn't you remove it from maas then? At least when xenial, the current
lts, is deployed?

On Jan 14, 2018 09:55, "Andres Rodriguez" <email address hidden> wrote:

> HP has dropped the support for hpvsa, and as such, marking this as wont
> fix.
>
> ** Changed in: maas
> Status: New => Invalid
>
> ** Changed in: maas
> Status: Invalid => Won't Fix
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[Jorge Niedbalski (niedbalski)]

Facing the same issue on HP moonshot. MAAS includes this archive as part of the deployment phase but no Xenial repositories are available. Then, the deployment fails consistently.