[Bug 1493889] [NEW] installation with proxy auth not working

[Markus]

Public bug reported:

I want to kickstart an installation behind a proxy, but its not working.
Though wget, seems to accept the proxy configuration, choose-mirror does
not succeed.

Following
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KickstartCompatibility#Using_a_proxy_.2F_cache_during_the_Kickstart,
my pxe-configuration is (note that i need to authenticate against the
proxy which is not described in the above link):

append ks=http://172.16.0.2/ub14_04-install/ks/ks.cfg vga=normal
initrd=ubuntu14_04/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16432 root=/dev/rd/0
http_proxy=http://ossproxy:password@172.16.0.5:8080 rw

ks.cfg is:
...
url --url http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
...

The installation stops with an error, syslog is saying:
... choose-mirror: DEBUG: command: wget --no-verbose http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/Release -O - | ...
... choose-mirror: WARNING **: mirror does not support the specified release (trusty)

But: switching to shell via <strg> + <alt> + <f2> and issuing the wget command:
wget --no-verbose http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/Release -O -
everything works fine, hence proxy is properly set.
The problem seems to be that choose-mirror can't handle a Proxy with authentication.

Also, doing an installation without proxy works fine.
But, as I need 50+ computers behind the proxy, this is not an option.

So, am I missing something? What can I do? Modify initrd?
Thanks

** Affects: kickseed (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  installation with proxy auth not working

Status in kickseed package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I want to kickstart an installation behind a proxy, but its not
  working. Though wget, seems to accept the proxy configuration, choose-
  mirror does not succeed.

  Following
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KickstartCompatibility#Using_a_proxy_.2F_cache_during_the_Kickstart,
  my pxe-configuration is (note that i need to authenticate against the
  proxy which is not described in the above link):

  append ks=http://172.16.0.2/ub14_04-install/ks/ks.cfg vga=normal
  initrd=ubuntu14_04/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16432 root=/dev/rd/0
  http_proxy=http://ossproxy:password@172.16.0.5:8080 rw

  ks.cfg is:
  ...
  url --url http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
  ...

  The installation stops with an error, syslog is saying:
  ... choose-mirror: DEBUG: command: wget --no-verbose http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/Release -O - | ...
  ... choose-mirror: WARNING **: mirror does not support the specified release (trusty)

  But: switching to shell via <strg> + <alt> + <f2> and issuing the wget command:
  wget --no-verbose http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/Release -O -
  everything works fine, hence proxy is properly set.
  The problem seems to be that choose-mirror can't handle a Proxy with authentication.

  Also, doing an installation without proxy works fine.
  But, as I need 50+ computers behind the proxy, this is not an option.

  So, am I missing something? What can I do? Modify initrd?
  Thanks

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