[Bug 659632] Re: netinstall refuses to use local mirror

[Paul Nijjar]

I ran into the following today too. Looking at the debian installer
source (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CheckOut) it looks like
support for the "enter information manually" strings have been removed
in favour of "manual" . So the example from William at response #8
should be:

d-i mirror/country string manual
d-i     mirror/http/countries string manual
d-i mirror/http/hostname string yourmirror-here.org
d-i     mirror/http/mirror      string yourmirror-here.org
d-i mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu
d-i mirror/suite string natty
d-i mirror/http/proxy string

And Christian Orth (#9) would not work because the string should be
"manual" and not "manual de".

I am attaching the contents of "git show bb1bdcaa4eecfc47b69420c0687eb3c2bc8e1d01" from the source. The changelog message was: 'Drop backwards compatibility for preseeding "manual" mirror selection. Change was introduced in Lenny. 
One release is enough for backwards compatibility support.'

I am guessing that there is a lot of documentation out there that needs
to be changed now.

** Attachment added: "bb1bdcaa4eecfc47b69420c0687eb3c2bc8e1d01.txt"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/659632/+attachment/3209527/+files/bb1bdcaa4eecfc47b69420c0687eb3c2bc8e1d01.txt

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Title:
  netinstall refuses to use local mirror

Status in “debian-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I am in charge of Ubuntu deployments at our organization, and in the
  past we have used kickstart + preseed files to deploy a tested,
  customized Ubuntu workstation. Although we do not have a huge number
  of Ubuntu users, I perform a substantial amount of testing on a
  configuration prior to mass deployment. Because of this all this
  testing, I have found that using apt-mirror to create a local mirror
  of packages saves me an enormous amount of time and bandwidth. This
  setup worked with both jaunty and lucid. However, with maverick,
  copying and updating the kickstart and preseed files does not work as
  before. While the system configuration settings from the kickstart
  seem to be followed correctly, the installer completely ignores the
  local mirror configuration and downloads every package from the
  Internet.

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