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ubuntu:lucid apt repo was moved to old-releases #1902

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chriskuehl opened this issue Jun 29, 2016 · 2 comments
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ubuntu:lucid apt repo was moved to old-releases #1902

chriskuehl opened this issue Jun 29, 2016 · 2 comments

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@chriskuehl
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We use the ubuntu:lucid image quite a bit to test our code against really old versions of Ubuntu. Unfortunately Ubuntu finally moved the lucid archives from archive.ubuntu.com to old-releases.ubuntu.com. Now a lot of builds are failing because they can't download packages.

We'd like to make the following change to the base image:

--- /etc/apt/sources.list.orig  2016-06-29 17:20:04.484815161 +0000
+++ /etc/apt/sources.list       2016-06-29 17:20:26.495986636 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid main universe
-deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-updates main universe
-deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security main universe
+deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid main universe
+deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-updates main universe
+deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security main universe

I can't find the ubuntu:lucid image anywhere in order to make a pull request, though. It was suggested on #docker that it may have been archived but never deleted. Is there any chance of updating this image?

(I know it's super EOL, but I think there's a lot of value in having Docker images for old releases, since Docker is by far the easiest way to test code against these legacy systems.)
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@tianon
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tianon commented Jul 15, 2016

Interesting idea -- we (@paultag and I) created the debian/eol image for Debian as a technical curiousity to see if it were easily feasible (and how far we could take it), and I think it has historical value to do so.

That being said, I talked to Canonical about this and they're not interested in providing or supporting this officially (which is understandable), although it's certainly possible to do with a bit of debootstrap footwork.

So, uh, TL;DR, this isn't going to happen as part of official images, or as an official Canonical/Ubuntu project, but it's technically possible, and I'm willing to help answer questions or provide further pointers for someone who's attempting it and running into trouble. 😄

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@tshepang
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A simple workaround is this line in Dockerfile:

RUN sed -i 's/archive/old-releases/' /etc/apt/sources.list

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