Package: apt-setup
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
This observation resulted from working on a preseed configuration for a Ubuntu
install, while attempting to use an internal security mirror we have for
security.ubuntu.com. This mirror uses https, which after much
debugging/digging is not a supported protocol by apt-setup for security_host
and security_path.
Currently in generators/91security there is a bit of hardcoding that forces
this to use the http protocol. There is no way to override this like with
mirror/protocol. Unfortunately we had to create a non-https mirror of
security.ubuntu.com as a stop-gap result.
It would be nice if there was an equivalent way to set this protocol as
mirror/protocol. Preferably, this could be apt-setup/security_protocol to
coincide with the existing parameters (secuirty_host and security_path).
Example proposed preseed:
d-i apt-setup/services-select multiselect security
d-i apt-setup/security_protocol string https
d-i apt-setup/security_host string internal.mirror.net
d-i apt-setup/security_path string /current/security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
Example resulting security mirror:
https://internal.mirror.net/current/security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
This was also requested additionally per a conversation in #ubuntu-devel:
[17:15] <xnox_> DPK_, there is one more key for protocol i think
[17:15] <xnox_> but i can't remember if we ask that for security too, let
me check quickly
[17:16] <xnox_> (cause we support http, ftp, https)
[17:17] == sergiusens [~sergiusen@181.111.178.194] has quit [Remote host
closed the connection]
[17:17] <xnox_> DPK_, ha, we do not it is hardcoded to http
[17:17] <xnox_> for the security
[17:18] <xnox_> DPK_, i think you may need to apply sed to either
generators/91security during install; or in the install hook; or post install.
[17:18] <xnox_> DPK_, could you please open a bug report against apt-setup
requesting to support apt-setup/security_protocol key?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers xenial-updates
APT policy: (500, 'xenial-updates'), (500, 'xenial-security'), (500,
'xenial'), (100, 'xenial-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-66-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
