Package: choose-mirror Version: N/A; reported 2004-08-26 Severity: normal Using choose-mirror in a daily netinst tarball downloaded 2004-08-24, a problem arose trying use to a web-proxy that authenticates against a windows domain, requiring the following syntax: http://DOMAN\user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port/ If used on the command line, it must be: a# http_proxy=http://DOMAN\\user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port/ wget <blah> but for the entirety of setup process except the first usage by choose-mirror, the backslash does not need to be doubled.
Choose-mirror itself is not undoubling the \'s, since it goes into the debconf database with \\, but I suspect it once calls wget like a# above, while anna uses net-retriever which only works if the response from debconf has a single \. You can work around this by using choose-mirror with the \\. It succeeds a step further, but still can't offer the choice of distro (or is this anna now? I suspect so...). If you then choose 'Go back', return to the menu and choose-mirror again, this time entering the proxy with a single \. Choose-mirror reports that it couldn't access the mirror, and if you go back again, and proceed to 'Install Installer Components' (or whatever's next) you can continue successfully through the rest of d-i. I tried using debconf-set to change the proxy value in the Alt-F2 terminal window, but debian-installer appears to run all under one instance of debconf (I guess) so it doesn't see the change made externally. (Sorry this is coming from a Woody machine, but the machine built doesn't have email or easy file access, so I haven't got an installation report to submit yet) -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux yurika 2.4.26 #1 Mon Aug 9 23:25:59 EST 2004 i686 Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
