How to set apt.primary on debian

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For my ubuntu container I have a profile with a cloud-init configuration to set apt.primary.uri. However I cannot get it to work with debian containers.

Can anyone share an example how to change the uri in /etc/apt/sources.list for debian?

My profile is more or less like this:

config:
  cloud-init.user-data: |
    #cloud-init
    apt:
      primary:
        - arches: [amd64, i386, default]
          uri: https://myapt.example.com/deb.debian.org/debian
  user.user-data: |
    #cloud-init
    apt:
      primary:
        - arches: [amd64, i386, default]
          uri: https://myapt.example.com/deb.debian.org/debian

I know that there is a duplication, but I forgot what that was necessary. Some old ubuntu, I believe, needed one, not the other.

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Correction of the example (#cloud-init => #cloud-config)

config:
  cloud-init.user-data: |
    #cloud-config
    apt:
      primary:
        - arches: [amd64, i386, default]
          uri: https://myapt.example.com/deb.debian.org/debian
  user.user-data: |
    #cloud-config
    apt:
      primary:
        - arches: [amd64, i386, default]
          uri: https://myapt.example.com/deb.debian.org/debian

Now I can see that it works for images:debian/11/cloud, however it does not work for images:debian/12/cloud.

/var/log/cloud-init.log

2023-07-29 20:32:54,014 - cc_apt_configure.py[DEBUG]: got primary mirror: https://myapt.example.com/archive.debian.org/debian
2023-07-29 20:32:54,014 - cc_apt_configure.py[DEBUG]: got security mirror: None
2023-07-29 20:32:54,014 - cc_apt_configure.py[DEBUG]: Apt Mirror info: {'PRIMARY': 'https://myapt.example.com/archive.debian.org/debian', 'SECURITY': 'https://myapt.example.com/archive.debian.org/debian', 'MIRROR': 'https://myapt.example.com/archive.debian.org/debian'}
2023-07-29 20:32:54,015 - handlers.py[DEBUG]: finish: modules-config/config-apt-configure: SUCCESS: config-apt-configure ran successfully

Resulting /etc/apt/sources.list

# Generated by distrobuilder
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main
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The images from images: remote are not maintained by the LXD team.

You could open an issue here https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/issues if you think that cloud-init is not working for that image.

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OK, thanks Thomas. I’ll do that.