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

[Jayen]

Hi Max,

The "auto" boot parameter seemed to work fine with a full URL, ie: "auto
url=http://autoserver/d-i/maverick/preseed.cfg" on the desktop CD.  I
hit F6 on the boot menu, then ESC, then entered additional kernel
parameters.  The installer still asked the usual questions but it did
seem to pick up settings from the preseed file just fine.

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

Status in “preseed” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “preseed” source package in Maverick:
  New
Status in “preseed” source package in Natty:
  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.