when selecting "only free software", I get restricted from the original CD and for -security

[Martin Pitt]

Binary package hint: debian-installer

Hardy amd64 alternate final candidate (20080422.2), expert installation with "only free software" option. /target/etc/apt/sources.list has "main restricted" for the cdrom apt source, which might potentially install restricted stuff.

Indeed the kernel choice includes and defaults to "linux-generic" which pulls in l-r-m. I have to manually select "linux-image-generic" to avoid non-free software.

Also, the final /etc/apt/sources.list has "restricted" for the -security sources. I attach the complete file.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Fixing the cdrom entry will be sufficient - the security generator decides whether to include restricted by seeing whether it's already been used elsewhere.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Seems like a reasonably small fix for 8.04.1.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package base-installer - 1.86ubuntu3

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base-installer (1.86ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Use powerpc64-smp kernel on PS3/Cell (LP: #221647).
  * Don't include restricted in the base sources.list if
    apt-setup/restricted is preseeded to false (LP: #220805).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 20 May 2008 22:37:07 +0200

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The linux-generic bit needs a fix in base-installer too. Patch attached in a moment.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

hardy test CD images are now available which include the updated installer
components that address this bug:

  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/hardy/daily/20080612.4/

Please test these images and report your results so we can verify whether
this bug is fixed.

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[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I tested alternate and desktop 8.04.1 test CDs with "[x] only free software" option.

 - The desktop was perfect, I don't get l-r-m (only linux-image-generic), and apt sources.list did not have any restricted/multiverse.

 - The alternate install had a clean apt sources.list as well, but installed l-r-m and linux-generic.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

are apt-setup and base-installer the only two components at issue here in the alternate installer, or could it be that the fixes to these two packages are both necessary, but not sufficient?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Should be just base-installer, as far as selecting the kernel to install goes. I'll give it a spin here.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/base-installer/hardy-updates/revision/328 fixes this for the alternate CD too (tested by manually modifying /usr/lib/base-installer/library.sh in a running installer); I'd missed out a few special cases for CD installs in base-installer. This didn't affect the desktop CD because ubiquity necessarily has its own special handling of apt-setup/restricted.

1.86ubuntu2.2 uploaded to hardy-proposed.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Reopening for intrepid then. Thanks Colin!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

I have verified that selecting the "only free software" in the daily alternative iso snapshot (20080617, i386) uses only main from the cd source in /target/etc/apt/sources.list during the install, linux-image-generic is the kernel that gets installed and not linux-generic, and that the hardy-security line in the installed sources.list does not include restricted.

I have not reverified the daily-live cd image. I didn't notice any regressions in the installation process, but didn't exercise it very heavily.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I tested today's hardy live CD and confirmed that I only get linux-image-generic installed, and the apt sources do not have multiverse/restricted (just commented ones for backports).

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied both to hardy-updates.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

apt-setup was fixed in Intrepid some time ago.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

base-installer was also fixed in Intrepid some time ago.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Oops, I forgot to merge the changes in base-installer 1.86ubuntu2.2 to intrepid. Doing that now.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package base-installer - 1.86ubuntu4

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base-installer (1.86ubuntu4) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Merge from hardy-proposed:
    - Fix exclusion of restricted in CD installations (LP: #220805).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:46:31 +0100