[08:49] <ffledgling> Hello, I was wondering if someone would happen to know how to delay installing packages until the last step/stage when cloud init runs?
[11:39] <Raboo> larsks if i use the NoCloud provisioner does it need the <url>/meta-data or is it sufficient with the <url>/user-data? So if i reply with an empty meta-data..
[14:04] <larsks> Raboo: the nocloud data source doesn't require any url; it gets metadata and userdata from files on disk.  See http://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/datasources/nocloud.html
[14:32] <Raboo> larsks you can use SeedFrom clause
[14:32] <Raboo> larsks seedfrom: http://my.example.com/i-abcde
[14:35] <larsks> Sure, but you didn't say you were using that, and I am not a mind reader.  Looking through the code it *looks* as if you should be able to get away with only providing the user-data. Are you seeing different behavior?
[14:39] <Raboo> larsks did a fast try on a machine, it failed, but i don't know where since I couldn't login, so im going to add a static user to that image so I can login and debug
[14:39] <Raboo> larsks but first i wanted to know if the meta-data was a requirement, since i don't have that implemented I thought I would start there if it was.
[14:40] <larsks> Have you also tried providing some minimal meta-data just to see what happens?  That should be an easy test.
[14:40] <Raboo> haven't yet.
[14:40] <larsks> Just serve out the metadata from the nocloud examples as a static file or something.
[14:41] <Raboo> ok
[14:41] <Raboo> but it's a bit more than 'just' since it's a plugin for another tool