Configurable package mirrors about beaker

[anodelman]

I believe that this PR covers this issue:

#273

[daenney]

Hmm, yes and no. That configures a proxy, so I'd have to run the proxy myself but it would still be fetching from http.us instead of ftp.nl in my case. I can probably do some URL rewriting/matching in my proxy.

[anodelman]

Did you find an appropriate workaround for this?

We've also updated proxying here (to ensure that it runs before SUT validation/configuration):
#518

[daenney]

I don't have a good solution for this. Essentially I'd need to add a layer to the Puppet Labs images that just do the right thing or stick with my evil sed. The other way would be to use Puppet itself and our apt module to reconfigure the host before Beaker triggers to update the package manager.

[anodelman]

I think that using a shell/sed as a pre-suite step makes sense in this situation. We do not provide localized images for testing, and beaker is not responsible for configuring images - so this type of tweak is an excellent candidate for a custom pre-suite configuration step.

I'm going to close this out as we are not going to be taking any additional steps here.