[Bug 732221] Re: Automatic-ubiquity installation of Lucid desktop with preseed ignores/clobbers preseeded values when creating /etc/apt/sources.list

[Colin Watson]

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

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

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Title:
  Automatic-ubiquity installation of Lucid desktop with preseed
  ignores/clobbers preseeded values when creating /etc/apt/sources.list

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  I realize these are "older" versions of the software, this problem
  doesn't seem to affect either Maverick or Natty, however I am
  reporting this as we are still conducting tests with Lucid and this
  issue gives us some problems when trying to install openssh-server,
  due to the incorrect sources.list.

  Steps to reproduce:
  1- Remaster a CD image with ubuntu-10.04.2-desktop-i386.iso, using the attached ubuntu.seed file instead of the one provided in the CD (the relevant part are all the d-i mirror/* settings, the rest is just for completeness).
  2- Boot with the CD, press a key, move to "install ubuntu" and press F6
  3- replace "only-ubiquity" with "automatic-ubiquity" and press enter install using the preseed file's data.

  Expected result: 
  /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to our local mirror, and containing lines of the form:

  deb
  http://10.153.104.60//rsync.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/ubuntu-10.04.2-server-i386
  lucid main restricted

  as per the preseed file's configuration:

  d-i mirror/country string manual
  d-i mirror/http/hostname string 10.153.104.60
  d-i mirror/http/directory string //rsync.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/ubuntu-10.04.2-desktop-i386
  d-i mirror/http/proxy string
  d-i mirror/http/mirror string 10.153.104.60

  Actual result:

  mirror/http/mirror gets replaced with a mirror according to the
  country as specified by debian-installer/locale. For instance, if
  locale is es_ES, we get lines of the form:

  deb
  http://es.archive.ubuntu.com//rsync.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/ubuntu-10.04.2-desktop-i386
  lucid main restricted

  I tested setting

  d-i mirror/http/mirror string ch.archive.ubuntu.com

  and it still gets overwritten with es.archive.ubuntu.com.

  This does not happen with either the alternate or server editions,
  both using plain debian-installer; it only happens under Ubiquity.

  I'm attaching the test preseed file, as well as ubiquity's debug file,
  obtained using debug-ubiquity on an actual test system.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.2.25
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-28.55-generic 2.6.32.27+drm33.12
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-28-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Mar  9 19:52:47 2011
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20110211.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity

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