Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a9-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch I noticed that live-helper defaults to using a mirror in Germany. It seems like it would be better to use the same mirror that the user's system is taking its packages from. Obviously we can't know that in general (well, except for copying sources.list, but that has its own issues), but in the common case, Debian systems get their apt sources from a mirror that looks like this:
deb http://http.XX.debian.org/debian(... more stuff) I suggest just taking the first such line from sources.list and using it to determine the mirror, and I've attached a patch (admittedly a bit ugly, but it should illustrate what I mean) that uses grep and sed to acheive this goal. Daniel -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages live-helper depends on: ii debootstrap 1.0.22 Bootstrap a basic Debian system Versions of packages live-helper recommends: ii cpio 2.11-1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii gettext-base 0.17-10 GNU Internationalization utilities Versions of packages live-helper suggests: ii dosfstools 3.0.9-1 utilities for making and checking ii fakeroot 1.14.4-1 Gives a fake root environment ii genisoimage 9:1.1.10-1 Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem pn memtest86+ | memtest86 <none> (no description available) ii mtools 4.0.12-1 Tools for manipulating MSDOS files ii parted 2.2-3 The GNU Parted disk partition resi pn squashfs-tools | genext2fs <none> (no description available) ii sudo 1.7.2p5-1 Provide limited super user privile ii syslinux 2:3.86+dfsg-1 utilities for the syslinux bootloa pn uuid-runtime <none> (no description available) pn win32-loader <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
--- defaults.sh.orig 2010-03-12 07:19:52.000000000 -0800 +++ defaults.sh 2010-04-05 20:19:43.325448780 -0700 @@ -7,6 +7,18 @@ # This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it # under certain conditions; see COPYING for details. +# Read /etc/apt/sources.list and grab the first line of the form +# +# deb http://http.XX.debian.org/debian/ +# +# to guess what the user's preferred Debian mirror is. +infer_main_mirror_from_apt_sources() +{ + (egrep -m1 '^\s*deb\s*(http|ftp)://(http|ftp)\.[a-zA-Z_]+\.debian\.org/debian' /etc/apt/sources.list + echo http://http.de.debian.org/debian) | + sed 's%^\s*deb\s*\(http\|ftp\)://\(http\|ftp\)\.\([a-zA-Z_]\+\)\..*$%http://ftp.\3.debian.org/debian/%' +} + Set_defaults () { ## config/common @@ -284,7 +296,7 @@ then case "${LH_MODE}" in debian|debian-release) - LH_MIRROR_BOOTSTRAP="http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/" + LH_MIRROR_BOOTSTRAP=$(infer_main_mirror_from_apt_sources) ;; emdebian)