Yes, I think the test case is wrong - I should indeed have written archive.ubuntu.com.*security (or some such) rather than security.ubuntu.com. In fact I think this represents a pre-existing bug in base-installer, but not a very serious one.
** Description changed: Binary package hint: base-installer I call this a regression because I presume at some point it worked as intended, but maybe it was dead on arrival... [cjwatson: It looks as if it was dead on arrival.] The apt-setup/security_host preseed is read, but completely ignored by configure_apt() in library.sh, thusly: if db_get apt-setup/security_host; then SECMIRROR="$RET" else SECMIRROR="$MIRROR" fi echo "deb $PROTOCOL://$MIRROR/ubuntu $DISTRIBUTION-security $COMPONENTS" >> /target/etc/apt/sources.list TEST CASE: Start a netboot installation with apt- setup/security_host=archive.ubuntu.com on the kernel command line, and check whether the resulting /var/log/installer/syslog includes a line - containing "base-installer:" and "security.ubuntu.com"; if so the test - has failed. (Or, if you can, firewall off security.ubuntu.com from the - test machine and test whether installation still works given that - command-line parameter; this is more real-world but more effort to set - up.) + containing all three of "base-installer:", "archive.ubuntu.com", and + "-security"; if so the test has failed. (Or, if you can, firewall off + archive.ubuntu.com or us.archive.ubuntu.com or whichever host it uses + from the test machine and test whether installation still works given + that command-line parameter; this is more real-world but more effort to + set up.) This only affects netboot installs, not CD installs. -- apt-setup/security_host is ignored https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306356 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs