[pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#1073131: Bug#1073131: LXC debian template do a mandatory debian repository check on Bookworm and fails without network

[Pierre-Elliott Bécue]

Control: severity -1 important

Hi,

Eppii <eppii at gandi.net> wrote on 13/06/2024 at 09:54:52+0200:

> Package: lxc-templates
> Version: 3.0.4.48.g4765da8-1
>
> ||/ Name           Version             Architecture Description
> +++-==============-===================-============-============================================
> ii  lxc-templates  3.0.4.48.g4765da8-1 amd64        Linux Containers userspace tools (templates)
>
> Hello !
>
> Context: we want to create a lxc with the lxc-debian template on a
> bookworm server without any access to internet.
>
> We identified following bug preventing to achieve our goal and had to
> edit the /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-debian to succeed.
>
> Description:
>
> The wget line 829 does not use the $MIRROR variable but the hardcoded
> debian repository. This check, newly implemented cannot be escaped and
> last the default wget timeout when device does not have internet
> access, which is SOOOOOOOOOO long: 900s!!!!!
>
> Solution may be to set it to 10s, adding a switch to disable the
> public check or check against the $MIRROR variable.
>
> Regards

So this has been spotted upstream and fixed in a later version.

There's an upcoming minor release of bookworm, let's see if I can
squeeze this in.

Thanks for the report.
-- 
PEB
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