apt-transport-https package missing in nvidia/cuda docker images

[ivankra]

apt-get update in nvidia/cuda docker images started hanging indefinitely at 0% [Working]:

$ docker run --rm -it nvidia/cuda:9.0-cudnn7-devel-ubuntu16.04 bash
root@f670a8ae2963:/# apt update
...
Get:23 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 Packages [8075 B]
0% [Working]

Looks like http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/... repos started redirecting to https:// today and the package apt-transport-https is missing in your images. There seems to be also some bug in apt causing the hanging - if you delete any one of the two references to this repo, it'll show the error instead of hanging:

root@fbc89f907f6d:/# rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-ml.list && apt update
...
Get:22 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 Packages [8075 B]
Reading package lists... Done                                 
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
N: Is the package apt-transport-https installed?

[flx42]

Yep, exactly what I just said here:
#704 (comment)
:)

[flx42]

I'm looking at that right now.

[tfboyd]

@fold0 Thank you for identifying the source. This has been killing me for the past hour as I tried to idenitfy the exact issue. I got around the https problem earlier i the day but then it just starting hard hanging.

[flx42]

I'm re-generating CUDA images with apt-transport-https.

But that won't fix old images that you have already, I'm checking if we can rollback this change for those repositories.

[tfboyd]

I see your point @flx42 this would impact the FINAL builds we have already published. If you need any support/customer feedback for rolling back the repo change I am happy to provide it. This totally toasted all of my tests and means going back and testing old versions means hacking in
rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-ml.list && apt update to a DockerFile. Open to ideas, this is not my area of expertise I just happened to be impacted.

[flx42]

@tfboyd thanks!
It's being rollbacked, but it's not entirely done yet.

[flx42]

And it should be back!
Please test!

[ivankra]

Works for me now, thanks for fixing it quickly!