Proposal: making apt-get upgrade optional

[Ian Booth]

On 03/07/14 03:27, John Meinel wrote:
> local provider is special. It generates a template image, and runs "apt-get
> update" once there, and then clones and doesn't ever run it again. Also,
> the template isn't destroyed by "destroy-environment" which means if you
> tried out the local provider 3 months ago, you'll still have a really old
> template today.
> Tim had intended to do more work here (provide a way to refresh the
> template), but ran out of time to work on local provider stuff.
>

There's currently work in progress (as a background task, so it will get done
eventually) to complete the work needed to allow the template to be refreshed.


> Note this will also effect LXC deployments, as other people requested us to
> use the template + clone on all clouds.
>

There's a config setting to turn this feature off (it's on by default).

lxc-clone: false