[Bug 1172101] Re: wget-udeb should install to /usr/bin/wget instead of /usr/bin/wget.gnu

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This bug was fixed in the package debian-installer-utils - 1.103ubuntu1

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debian-installer-utils (1.103ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Resynchronise with Debian.  Remaining changes:
    - user-params: Don't propagate vga=*, break=*, *-ubiquity, or
      noninteractive to installed system.
    - list-devices:
      + New "mmc-partition" type for detecting partitions on MMC devices.
      + Make sure we also detect platform-omap MMCs.
      + Don't return entries for extended partitions.
    - Don't include the battery subsystem on calls to udevadm trigger.
  * Drop Ubuntu delta to use /proc/self/fd/4 rather than /dev/fd/4 in
    fetch-url-methods/http.  udevd reliably creates the /dev/fd symlink
    these days.

debian-installer-utils (1.103) unstable; urgency=medium

  * fetch-url-methods/http: Cope with the slightly different no-such-file
    output produced by GNU wget, and with it needing to be invoked using
    --no-verbose rather than -q (LP: #1172101).
  * Merge from Ubuntu:
    - log-output: Always install a no-op SIGCHLD handler, in case the
      subsidiary process starts a daemon which does not fully disconnect its
      standard file descriptors (LP: #1021293).  See also the changelog for
      1.46.

debian-installer-utils (1.102) unstable; urgency=low

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debian-installer-utils (1.101) unstable; urgency=low

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 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>   Fri, 07 Feb 2014 17:26:21 +0000

** Changed in: debian-installer-utils (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  wget-udeb should install to /usr/bin/wget instead of /usr/bin/wget.gnu

Status in “base-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “debian-installer-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “debootstrap” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “wget” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  In the Ubuntu raring (13.04) version of wget, there is a wget-udeb
  which installs its binary executable to /usr/bin/wget.gnu.

  This is presumably done in order to not break any setups that depend
  on busybox's wget implementation.

  However, since the primary reason wget-udeb exists in Ubuntu (wget-
  udeb is not built in Debian afaik) is because of the lack of SSL
  support in d-i and busybox-wget, it seems logical (to me) that it
  should overwrite the busybox wget symlink.  You're choosing to opt-in
  to GNU wget, so you're already rebuilding d-i/debian-cd and therefore
  know you're somewhat on your own.

  Unless there is a common use case I'm not considering where you want
  SSL support for something else, but somehow depend on the busybox
  implementation of wget for the debootstrap portion of the install.

  What I expect to happen:
  1) modify d-i source to include wget-udeb
  2) rebuild d-i and point my sources to HTTPS repositories
  3) install Ubuntu without fear of the traffic being snooped in transit

  What happens instead:
  1) modify d-i source to include wget-udeb
  2) rebuild d-i and point sources to HTTPS repositories
  3) install fails because d-i calls /usr/bin/wget which points to busybox (which has no SSL support)

  Thanks for your time!

  Please note: this suggestion is not intended to securely authenticate
  the repository; that's absolutely another issue.  This is simply to
  address potential snooping of traffic in transit.

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