trouble updating 7.04 -> 7.10

[sean darcy]

sean darcy wrote:
> Ante Karamatić wrote:
>> U Sub, 28. 02. 2009., u 13:03 -0500, sean darcy je napisao/la:
>>
>>> I don't understand why it tries to use //us.archive.ubuntu.com.
>> I've just installed feisty in my virtual system, and I'll be able to
>> check upgrade problems in couple of hours. So, get back later for
>> information.
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks. In the mean time I've think I've narrowed it down.
> 
> Each time it runs do-release-upgrade sticks the name of the local mirror in:
> 
> cat sources.list.d/prerequists-sources.list
> # sources.list fragment for pre-requists (one with countrymirror, one 
> fallback)
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-backports 
> main/debian-installer
> 
> It'll overwrite whatever is there.  And, of course, 
> us.archive.ubuntu.com does have feisty.
> 
> I tried the trick in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeProblems
> of setting the ip address for us.archive.ubuntu.com to the address for 
> old-releases. That didn't work because because the nslookup ip address 
> doesn't actually resolve to the same place as old-releases.ubuntu.com. Probably vhost.
> 
> sean
> 

Turns out this is bug 153980, which has been known for over a year. And 
not fixed.

seam