Package: debian-installer
Version: 20150422+deb8u4
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
We have a segment of our network that is firewalled off from the Internet
at large. We have a local Debian mirror that we use for these subnets
(as well as the organization at large).
When we run an installation by hand, off the netinstal image, we chooose a
"Manual" mirror configuration and point it to (e.g.) "mirror.hpc.example.com"
because that area of the network can't get online.
The base installation works just fine from the mirror. However, the installer
then tries to contact "security.debian.org" (s.d.org) for some reason--even
though we told it use our internal mirror. This causes delays while the
timeout occurs in two parts of the installation process:
* the initial package installation
* towards the end, when an 'apt-get update' is run in a chroot(8)
It really slows things down and is annoying--especially since we have
s.d.org in our "mirror.list" file and we pull from it nightly.
The installer should do one of the following:
* not check s.d.org if a 'manual' mirror has been chosen
* have a check-box (default enabled? disabled?) asking if s.d.org
should be looked at
* assume that the manually-configured mirror has "${release}/updates"
and try pulling files from there
** perhaps with toggleable s.d.org check, per above
* have a (radio button?) selection where the manually-configured mirror is
checked for "${release}/updates", s.d.org is checked, or nothing is checked
The above action would also then affect the final sources.list file of the
installed system.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
-- no debconf information
