Re: choose-mirror debconf values
Quoting Paul Telford (pxt@debian.org):
>
> I'm trying to feed some pre-set values to debconf such that I can skip
> over some of the installation questions in an automated way. So far so
> good, except for choose-mirror. It keeps prompting me to choose an ftp
> mirror... I only want to use http. I'm using the following to load the
> debconf values:
>
> db_set mirror/country "enter information manually" || true
> db_set mirror/http/countries "enter information manually" || true
> db_set mirror/http/directory "/LinuxCOE/Debian" || true
> db_set mirror/http/hostname "linuxcoe.rose.hp.com" || true
> db_set mirror/http/proxy "" || true
> db_set mirror/suite "testing" || true
> db_set mirror/protocol "http" || true
>
>
> I'm then setting the "seen" flag on all of the above. I thought the
> "protocol" entry would be enough to get me past this without prompting for
> ftp info, but apparently not. Any ideas?
Reporting as a bug against choose-mirror could be a good start
idea...:-)
You probably need to look deeply into choose-mirror.c and try
understanding what happens there.
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