I'm confused as to why an enterprise level product is still using an End of Life version of Ubuntu as their primary OVA appliance in VMWare.
Why would a non-LTS version ever be picked at all?
We have a copy of openvpnas's ova running that my boss downloaded 3 months ago or so. And it is not un-upgradable as Ubuntu 13.10 is end-of-life and the repositories have been purged.
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http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy/main Sources
404 Not Found
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http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy/main amd64 Packages
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http://security.ubuntu.com saucy-security/main Sources
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.24 80]
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http://us.archive.ubuntu.com saucy-backports/multiverse amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
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http://security.ubuntu.com saucy-security/restricted Sources
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.24 80]
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http://security.ubuntu.com saucy-security/universe Sources
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.24 80]
etc... etc... etc...
It is very bad practice to base your Virtual Appliance off of a non-LTS distribution, exactly for this reason.
Who knows how many appliances are out there that will not get security updates.
Fortunately, I know how to fix this. But I see no documentation to this problem on the OpenVPN site. Nor do I know that if I do upgrade to an LTS, if it will break the core openvpnas package from you guys. Or if that had ever been tested.
Please let me know why a non-LTS version was used in the OVA, and how to fix it without breaking the openvpn access server.
Thanks,
--Tag
