reassign 517644 choose-mirror severity 517644 serious thanks On Sunday 01 March 2009, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > Comments/Problems: > I attempted to install 'etch' on this system using the 'lenny' > installer. I did this via the preseeding method, passing the > suite="etch" > option to the boot line of the installer kernel. > The system then proceeds to install 'lenny'. > This appears to be a regression relative to the situation before > release, when I was able to successfully "cross-install" etch via the > lenny installer.
As this is the second report of this issue I've seen passing by, it's quite likely this is valid. This is definitely a serious issue that should be fixed with the next stable update. It should also be verified whether oldstable installs using Sarge netboot images still work or not. There's a good chance those are broken too. > In the preseed I have set the "etch" distribution as well > % grep -w etch /var/lib/preseed/log > d-i mirror/suite select etch > d-i preseed/url string > http://installserver/./preseed/debian/etch/amd64/server-lenny.cfg > d-i mirror/suite string etch > d-i mirror/codename string etch There's some weirdness in here (double definition of mirror/suite for example), but I doubt that affects the validity of the report. > I happen to use an apt-proxy but I don't think that is the cause - > doing the first wget manually returns the expected value of Suite:, > i.e. oldstable, and if I do the next one manually, with 'oldstable' in > the URL I get the right Codename returned ('etch'). Agreed, but it should be confirmed with a real mirror just to make sure. > I also noticed that 'packages/choose-mirror/mirrors.h' does not include > "oldstable" in the definition of the suites[][SUITE_LENGTH] array. > Could this be the issue? It could well be. This is something we have been unable to test so far. I had expected it to work as we do use the codename as a base to determine the suite, but if there is a check that the returned suite must be in that list the failure would be explained. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
