Opened on 04/12/2014 at 08:38:44 AM
Closed on 04/14/2014 at 06:30:16 AM
Last modified on 04/14/2014 at 09:20:58 AM
#311 closed change (fixed)
Switch to a current Ubuntu image for infrastructure testing
| Reported by: | trev | Assignee: | trev |
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| Priority: | P3 | Milestone: | |
| Module: | Infrastructure | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Blocked By: | ||
| Blocking: | Platform: | ||
| Ready: | yes | Confidential: | no |
| Tester: | Verified working: | no | |
| Review URL(s): | |||
Description (last modified by trev)
Background
We are currently using http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box as our Ubuntu 12.04 image for Vagrant. However, this box is outdated - it is the initial Ubuntu 12.04 release, not the current Ubuntu 12.04.4 release.
What to change
Use the official Ubuntu images from http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/precise/current/precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box - these are being updated regularly. Also, debian-goodies package should be made part of the base system, the utility checkrestart should make updating already installed systems easier.
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Change History (4)
comment:1 Changed on 04/12/2014 at 09:43:39 AM by trev
- Review URL(s) modified (diff)
- Status changed from new to reviewing
comment:2 Changed on 04/12/2014 at 09:45:30 AM by trev
Monitoring http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/precise/ seems to be a good alternative to what I thought popbugs would be doing.
comment:3 Changed on 04/14/2014 at 06:30:16 AM by trev
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from reviewing to closed
After testing popbugs a bit, this doesn't seem as useful as its description implies. Not only does it rely on a log produced by the popularity-contest tool for no good reason, the list of bugs produced doesn't seem to be a useful help for decisions. It is pretty much an undifferentiated dump of the Debian bug database rather than a list of "critical bugs with patches available that you didn't install yet." Still, checkrestart is a must-have.