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| antarus | cjwatson: mornin' | 16:13 |
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| antarus | cjwatson: I have a log, it turns out that 50mirror isn't even being called, and 'choose-mirror' is being run from main-menu | 16:14 |
| antarus | cjwatson: the problem for us is that choose-mirror (the C binary?) is trying to 'validate' our mirror | 16:14 |
| antarus | cjwatson: but our mirror doesn't follow the standard format | 16:14 |
| antarus | cjwatson: so 'validation' fails | 16:14 |
| antarus | cjwatson: even though our mirror is totally able to serve packages | 16:14 |
| antarus | cjwatson: so nominally I want to skip choose-mirror: we have a apt-setup generator that will fill in the right lines for us :/ | 16:15 |
| xnox | antarus: hmm.... well use early-command or partman-early-command to replace choose-mirror with whatever you want it to do =) | 16:34 |
| antarus | xnox: it was unclear to me if choose-mirror was installed during early-command | 16:35 |
| antarus | but yes that was raised :/ | 16:35 |
| cjwatson | Eh, early-command shouldn't be necessary. One moment | 16:35 |
| cjwatson | antarus: I'd like to look at the log myself, if possible | 16:36 |
| antarus | cjwatson: yeah, I'm just redacted bits | 16:42 |
| antarus | redacting* | 16:42 |
| antarus | cjwatson: hmmm it looks like in this log I tried setting d-i mirror/http and d-i mirror/directory and d-i mirror/proxy | 16:45 |
| antarus | and the only bug was in d-i mirror proxy, because my proxy ACL was bogus | 16:46 |
| antarus | (I am not sure what you are looking for in the log, per se, and I've changed a few parameters since Friday ;p) | 16:46 |
| antarus | (The logs are super helpful, in terms of the DEBCONF_DEBUG stuff, but they have not uncovered any bugs or odd behavior, the code is behaving as expected.) | 16:49 |
| cjwatson | antarus: I always find it much easier to read through it myself than to operate at one remove | 16:50 |
| cjwatson | And they give me exact values for everything | 16:50 |
| antarus | true enough | 16:50 |
| cjwatson | For instance "mirror/http" doesn't exist so either you've mistranscribed or your preseed file is wrong | 16:50 |
| cjwatson | This is the sort of thing I prefer to look at directly in the log | 16:50 |
| cjwatson | Tells me about order of events too | 16:50 |
| antarus | pft! ;p | 16:51 |
| cjwatson | And I'm not sure how your mirror might not follow the standard format in a way that can't be handled | 16:51 |
| antarus | blame thomas | 16:51 |
| antarus | :) | 16:51 |
| cjwatson | Well, no, I'm not sure this is *possible* | 16:51 |
| cjwatson | You may just be unaware of the facilities | 16:51 |
| antarus | ahh | 16:51 |
| antarus | let me look at my error log again, perhaps we can just fiddle with mirror/http/directory or soemthing | 16:53 |
| antarus | I admit when this was set up it was a rush job done by someone else, luckily that fellow is back from holiday | 16:53 |
| cjwatson | There's also a thing to tweak handling of security | 16:53 |
| cjwatson | apt-setup/security_{host,path} | 16:53 |
| cjwatson | choose-mirror is always run for netboot installs because the netboot installer retrieves bits of itself from the mirror too | 16:54 |
| cjwatson | So fixing up your mirror preseeding is mandatory for netboot installs | 16:55 |
| antarus | yeah it is possible that we are actualyl being naughty and fetching from us.archive.ubuntu.com | 16:57 |
| antarus | (but just the installer bits) | 16:57 |
| cjwatson | If you fix that up then you *can* skip the choose-mirror call in apt-setup, but it may not buy you very much | 16:58 |
| cjwatson | The only plausible alternative is to PXE-boot something like a monolithic d-i mini.iso which you've built specially; that's possible but it's starting to get a bit off the reservation | 16:59 |
| cjwatson | (The monolithic flavour has everything built into the initrd rather than relying on the network. But it's not built by default and mainly intended for use by d-i developers.) | 17:00 |
| antarus | ahh | 17:02 |
| antarus | so I talked to the guy who set this upe | 17:02 |
| antarus | his understanding is that our repo names are not the repo names the installer is expecting | 17:02 |
| antarus | which is a bug we need to fix in the future | 17:03 |
| antarus | ;p | 17:03 |
| cjwatson | I need concrete details if at all possible | 17:03 |
| cjwatson | Preferably that log :) | 17:03 |
| antarus | well here | 17:03 |
| antarus | let me set the mirror lines to point at rapture | 17:03 |
| antarus | and do an install | 17:03 |
| antarus | and then I'll have that log | 17:03 |
| cjwatson | There are definitely meant to be ways to cope with this kind of thing, and if it can't then I suspect I will consider it a d-i bug | 17:04 |
| antarus | on a positive note, this did lead to a bug in our pxe infrastructure that downcased extra arguments ;p | 17:06 |
| cjwatson | heh | 17:08 |
| antarus | ahh | 17:09 |
| antarus | asprintf(&command, "wget -q %s://%s%s/dists/%s/Release -O - | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename):'", | 17:09 |
| antarus | protocol, hostname, directory, name); | 17:09 |
| antarus | I see | 17:09 |
| antarus | where is 'name' set.. | 17:10 |
| antarus | it is possible that if we preseed 'suite' to be the right name, it would work | 17:11 |
| antarus | its not clear if preseeding the suite has other negative naming effects | 17:11 |
| cjwatson | That's one possibility, yes | 17:12 |
| cjwatson | For the most part I think it should be OK | 17:12 |
| * antarus nods | 17:12 | |
| antarus | I'll try taht next | 17:12 |
| antarus | cjwatson: ok, how shall I get this log to you? | 17:17 |
| cjwatson | cjwatson@ubuntu.com is fine | 17:18 |
| cjwatson | feel free to encrypt if necessary | 17:18 |
| antarus | nah I've removed all of the juicy bits ;p | 17:21 |
| antarus | ugh | 17:21 |
| antarus | chromeos-- | 17:21 |
| antarus | ok log sent | 17:29 |
| antarus | hrm, suite sets codename... | 17:48 |
| antarus | so I need to change that as well | 17:48 |
| cjwatson | Should be picked up from the archive's Release file | 17:48 |
| cjwatson | (I'll have a look properly later, getting towards dinnertime here) | 17:48 |
| antarus | oh | 17:49 |
| antarus | Codename: ubuntu-precise-proposed-main-20130614-2 | 17:49 |
| antarus | yeah | 17:49 |
| antarus | thats a bug on our side | 17:49 |
| antarus | ;p | 17:49 |
| antarus | cjwatson: the more I look at this, the more the hate piles on ;) | 20:21 |
| * antarus thinks he has something that will work though | 20:26 | |
| antarus | cjwatson: and another bug in our mirroring system ;p | 22:29 |
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