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

[Max Bowsher]

Hello ~ubuntu-sponsors,

I have updated Reinhard's fix to target oneiric, and request
sponsorship.

I've not tested this in oneiric, but I have tested it in natty, by
applying the change to an existing d-i mini.iso / initrd.gz.

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Title:
  auto url=autoserver fetches wrong preseed file (squeeze, not
  maverick/natty/oneiric)

Status in “preseed” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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.