[StarCluster] ubuntu 14.04?

[Cedar McKay]

Hello all.

I have several software packages that are not available in ubuntu 13, so I'ld love to upgrade to 14.04. What is the best practice for upgrading to the latest, while still keeping starcluster working? If I can't get dist upgrade to 14.04, is there any way to access more recent debs? The usual way of editing /etc/apt/sources.list doesn't seem available in the standard starcluster official AMIs. 





I took a crack at rolling my own 14.04 starting with the script  here:

https://github.com/jtriley/StarCluster/blob/develop/utils/scimage.py

I started with an official ubuntu 14.04 snapshot, but it failed like this after running for a while:

> Ign http://www.cs.wisc.edu lenny Release       
> Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security Release.gpg [933 B]
> Err http://www.cs.wisc.edu lenny/contrib Sources                     
>   
> Ign http://www.cs.wisc.edu lenny/contrib amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
> Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security Release [58.5 kB]
> Err http://www.cs.wisc.edu lenny/contrib Sources         
>   
> Hit http://www.cs.wisc.edu lenny/contrib amd64 Packages
> Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main Sources [12.0 kB]
> Err http://www.cs.wisc.edu lenny/contrib Sources                      
>   
> Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Sources [1,785 B]
> Err http://www.cs.wisc.edu lenny/contrib Sources                      
>   
> Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main amd64 Packages [37.9 kB]
> Err http://www.cs.wisc.edu lenny/contrib Sources                                             
>   404  Not Found
> Ign http://www.cs.wisc.edu lenny/contrib Translation-en_US            
> Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe amd64 Packages [9,525 B]
> Ign http://www.cs.wisc.edu lenny/contrib Translation-en                
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main Translation-en
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Translation-en                                                                                                    
> Ign http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main Translation-en_US                                                                                                     
> Ign http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Translation-en_US                                                                                                 
> Fetched 121 kB in 10s (11.4 kB/s)                                                                                                                                         
> W: Failed to fetch http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/debian/development/dists/lenny/contrib/source/Sources  404  Not Found
> 
> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "scimage.py", line 612, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "scimage.py", line 590, in main
>     upgrade_packages()
>   File "scimage.py", line 274, in upgrade_packages
>     apt_command('update')
>   File "scimage.py", line 228, in apt_command
>     run_command(cmd)
>   File "scimage.py", line 216, in run_command
>     raise Exception(errmsg)
> Exception: command 'DEBIAN_FRONTEND='noninteractive' apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::='--force-confnew' -y --force-yes update' failed with status 100




Thanks for your help!
Cedar