[Bug 1022891] Re: Regression bug: can't preseed download location

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Title:
  Regression bug: can't preseed download location

Status in “msttcorefonts” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  For some time already we have been using preseed to specify our local
  repository containing the Microsoft fonts. The main reason for this is
  that we have a pretty complicated proxy environment and it's much
  easier to provide the local repository directly.

  So we have used those preseed entries:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/dlurl string http://@HOSTNAME@@DIRECTORY@/msttcorefonts/
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula boolean true

  The postinst script says it all:
  # FIXME: we don't have a way to use an alternate download source here.
  db_get msttcorefonts/dlurl
  URLOVERRIDE=$RET

  The rules file seems to generate a static URLROOT pointing to
  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/ and the URLOVERRIDE is
  ignored.

  Our 12.04 workstations have some real issues with that. We have not
  worked that around yet.

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