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Bug#418427: marked as done (debian-installer: Debian 4 Indian mirror points to Debian 3)

From: Debian Bug Tracking System <owner(at)bugs.debian.org>
Date: Tue Jun 26 2007 - 11:02:05 EDT

Your message dated Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:42:48 +0200 with message-id <200706261542.57093.elendil@planet.nl> and subject line Processed: Bug#418427: debian-installer and outdated mirrors has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-installer
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

The indian mirror site for debian still seems to be having only Debian 3.x packages and the MAIN PROBLEM being that netinst of Debian 4.0 goes ahead and imports the Debian 3.x package info without giving any warning. Also it doesn't give the option for selecting the packages to be installed as part of installing. On booting into the new system apt/aptitude lists Debian 3.x packages for installation.

System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
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Do you need help?

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On Friday 22 June 2007 22:27, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> reassign 418427 debian-installer

> The debian mirror ftp.iitm.ac.in has been fixed a while ago.
> Anyway, given that the status of mirrors may evolve with the time (and
> may be not fixable), something in the debian-installer to check the
> status would be great.

No, debian-installer needs to be able to work irrespective of the state of specific mirrors because otherwise the installer would always need to be rebuilt _after_ a release has already happened, which is not acceptable.

We have already applied a fix (#422442) in the installer that when installing from CD, it will always install the codename that is on the CD instead of installing the suite corresponding to that codename. So, if you install an Etch CD, you will get Etch, even if the mirror still lists Etch as "testing".

See also #418382, which would make selecting a release for non-CD based installs a bit more clear.

Do you need more help?

Closing this report as there is nothing further that can be done about this in the installer and the issue reported originally was resolved.

Cheers,
FJP

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