plainbox: TRANSFER_SERVER not set

networking/http test fail http://: Invalid host name.

Job is defined as follows:

plugin: shell
name: networking/http
command: wget -SO /dev/null http://$TRANSFER_SERVER
description:
 Automated test case to make sure that it's possible to download files through HTTP

So the problem here is $TRANSFER_SERVER is not set.

The reason is that these variables are set in the server_info checkbox plugin, which does not exist in plainbox.

This plugin sets TRANSFER_SERVER, NTP_SERVER and OTHER_SERVER to suitable values. The defaults are:

    transfer_server = String(default="cdimage.ubuntu.com")
    ntp_server = String(default="ntp.ubuntu.com")
    other_server = String(default="127.0.0.1")

These are overridable with standard checkbox plugin options, e.g. --config=checkbox/plugins/server/info/transfer_server=some.other.transfer.server. Note, however, that in practice they are *NOT* set to anything different than the defaults.

We can potentially set these variables in plainbox's config file, in the environment section, which should be done in the preseed in checkbox-satellite.

Thus, this is strictly speaking not a plainbox bug, but a checkbox-satellite one. Have a look at this but feel free to reassign to checkbox-satellite afterwards.