Package: choose-mirror Version: 2.37 Hello,
I am maintaining a repository that consists of Debian packages merged with a couple of our modifications using reprepro. I have two codenames in the repo, beta3 and beta4, but actually the system behind this is Debian Stable, so I expect that the installer would behave just as Debian Stable (squeeze).
For installs I am using the mini-iso generated from the source package and provide my own preseed file. According to the documentation:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs04.html#preseed-mirror I should be able to specify my own mirror server with: d-i mirror/country string manual d-i mirror/http/hostname string wro-linux.eu.tieto.com d-i mirror/http/directory string /debian # Suite to install. d-i mirror/suite string beta4 # Suite to use for loading installer components (optional). d-i mirror/udeb/suite string beta4 Unfortunately I noticed that choose-mirror in its choose-mirror.postinst script takes the values from /etc/lsb-release and overrides the values provided in the preseed file: if [ -f /etc/lsb-release ]; then . /etc/lsb-release if [ -n "$DISTRIB_CODENAME" ]; then db_set mirror/suite "$DISTRIB_CODENAME" fi fi Thus I am actually unable to specify the repository in any reasonable format like I would use in sources.list: deb http://wro-linux.eu.tieto.com/debian beta4 main Next installation steps fail due to being unable to find the stable suite that was found in lsb-release. I know I could use a link from beta4 to stable on the repository, but mini-iso which take preseed with beta3 suite would also end up in 'stable' which is linked to beta4. I also noticed that I would have to edit debootstrap as well, as it seems there is no other preseed value which actually specifies the distribution but mirror/suite and mirror/codename, as when I changed the lsb-release package to beta3/beta4, debootstrap fails to find the beta3/beta4 scripts in his package (while it should actually look for squeeze). But this is out of the scope. Thus long story short: I believe that choose-mirror should first check if the user has not specified the mirror/suite with preseed before setting his own default value. Best regards, Boleslaw Tokarski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e2932b6.8090...@tieto.com
