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  1. Bug #306356
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 306356

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Steve Beattie (sbeattie) wrote :

Colin, I don't think the testcase in the description is quite correct. I used the netboot image from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-proposed/main/installer-i386/20070308ubuntu40.7/images/netboot/mini.iso with an apt-setup/security_host option that pointed to an non-available ip address. There's no mention of security.ubuntu.com in the resultant /var/log/installer/syslog; however, the security archive information was successfully pulled from:

  base-installer: Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release.gpg [189B]
  base-installer: Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release [58.5kB]
  base-installer: Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages [114kB]
  base-installer: Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Packages [7487B]

which is what I would expect would happen if $MIRROR is used instead of $SECMIRROR, based on the code snippet above. I do note that later on apt-setup fails to download the hardy-security repo from the non-reachable ip address, and (I believe, but need to reverify) that /etc/apt/sources.list was set up correctly to point to the alternate security host (which confuses me based on the code snippet above).

Using the same netboot image, with the same apt-setup/security_host option plus the addition apt-set/proposed=true argument, those downloads fail with:

  base-installer: Err http://192.168.1.210 hardy-security Release.gpg
  base-installer: Could not connect to 192.168.1.210:3142 (192.168.1.210). - connect (111 Connection refused)
  base-installer: W:
  base-installer: Failed to fetch http://192.168.1.210:3142/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/Release.gpg Could not connect to 192.168.1.210:3142 (192.168.1.210). - connect (111 Connection refused)
  base-installer:
  base-installer: W:
  base-installer: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
  base-installer:
  base-installer: W:
  base-installer: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
  base-installer:

(In both instances there were non-relevant lines interspersed that I removed, but I'll attach the syslog from both runs.)

I *think* this issue is verified for hardy, but I'd like confirmation from Colin on this.