[Bug 681396] [NEW] auto url=autoserver fetches wrong preseed file (squeeze, not maverick/natty/oneiric)

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While experimenting with d-i, I stumpled in the documentation
https://help.ubuntu.com/10.10/installation-guide/i386/preseed-using.html
#preseed-auto over this part:

<quote>
There are several features of Debian Installer that combine to allow fairly simple command lines at the boot prompt to result in arbitrarily complex customized automatic installs. To illustrate this, here are some examples that can be used at the boot prompt:

  auto url=autoserver

This relies on there being a DHCP server that will get the machine to the point where autoserver can be resolved by DNS, perhaps after adding the local domain if that was provided by DHCP. If this was done at a site where the domain is example.com, and they have a reasonably sane DHCP setup, it would result in the preseed file being retrieved from http://autoserver.example.com/d-i/maverick/./preseed.cfg
</quote>

This, however, is wrong, a tcpdump revealed that the installer tries to
download http://autoserver.example.com/d-i/squeeze/./preseed.cfg
instead.

** Affects: preseed (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: preseed (Ubuntu Maverick)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: preseed (Ubuntu Natty)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Confirmed

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auto url=autoserver fetches wrong preseed file (squeeze, not maverick/natty/oneiric)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/681396
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