Installer tries to pull the wrong files down when netbooting
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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net-retriever (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Colin Watson | ||
Hardy |
Fix Released
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High
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
The netboot installer's network package retriever fetches Packages files from the main archive it's given and from security.ubuntu.com (or the value of apt-setup/
The fix is simple and safe: fall back to trying to retrieve packages from the security archive if fetching them from the main archive fails. This has been fixed in net-retriever 1.21ubuntu2 in intrepid.
The attached patch fixes this bug. Changelog entry:
* Fetch packages from security host if trying to fetch them from the main
host fails (LP: #94398).
TEST CASE: Fetch the netboot mini.iso from the archive (http://
Regression potential: netboot installations might end up broken in different ways, though I think the risk is low. CD installations will be unaffected.
Changed in debian-installer: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in net-retriever: | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-8.04.1 |
Changed in net-retriever: | |
assignee: | nobody → kamion |
assignee: | nobody → kamion |
description: | updated |
This can cause problems when testing stable release updates, so I want to get it fixed for 8.04.1.