[Bug 1098577] Re: Archive locations are not picked up correctly according to the timezones for preseeded raring desktop installations

[Colin Watson]

UTC is a special case.  It does not have any single country defined for
it, so ubiquity's timezone plugin does not override debian-
installer/country (which scripts/tzsetup transcribes into
mirror/country).

In the case of US/Eastern, it's more complicated.  I think there is
indeed a ubiquity bug here, in that the timezone plugin only sets
debian-installer/country in its ok_handler, which is called when the
user explicitly asks to go to the next page; we need to do this
somewhere else instead (or as well?) for the benefit of installations
where the timezone step has been fully preseeded.

Is there any particular reason why you don't simply preseed 'd-i
mirror/country string US', or whatever country is appropriate?  You're
going to have to do that anyway for the UTC case, so you might as well
do it across the board, which would allow you to avoid this problem
entirely.

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)

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Title:
  Archive locations are not picked up correctly according to the
  timezones for preseeded raring desktop installations

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  de.archive.ubuntu.com is being set in the sources.list file for german
  language (de_DE.UTF-8) raring desktop installations using preseeds.
  (the preseed is attached). The sources.list file looks like the one
  that is attached when the timezone is set to Etc/UTC or US/Eastern and
  the locale is set to de_DE.UTF-8.

  Manual installations appear to set the correct archives though. When
  selecting America/Montreal or London during manual installations with
  Deutsche language correctly set the respective archives.

  Steps:
  1. Do a preseed installation of raring desktop with the attached preseed file (default_de.cfg)
  2. Inspect /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/timezone and it could be noticed that they do not correspond to each other

  (I used utah for installation, the how to is given in http://utah.readthedocs.org/en/latest/introduction.html#how-to-start-running-tests)
  The steps are
  1. use the attached preseed file and .run to execute the following command
  2. sudo -i -u utah run_utah_tests.py -i /path/to/iso -p /path/to/preseed /path/to/.run
  3. Check the sources.list after the intsallation

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-7.15-generic 3.7.0
  Uname: Linux 3.7.0-7-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Jan 11 13:49:21 2013
  InstallCmdLine:  automatic-ubiquity boot=casper keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=us noprompt
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-09 (2 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130109)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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