Bug#279590: base-config: http/proxy fails to preseed

[Paul Telford <pxt@debian.org>]

On Nov 3, 2004, at 4:51 PM, Joey Hess wrote:

> Paul Telford wrote:
> > base-config seems to ignore the proxy settings I specify during the
> > first stage of the installer, leading to a warning message which
> > interrups a pre-seeded installation.  Specifically, I'm setting
> >    d-i     mirror/http/proxy       string 
> > http://web-proxy.rose.hp.com:8088/
> > in my preseed file.  The value is getting copied to config.dat, but 
> > apt-setup
> > doesn't seem to be honoring it.  Not sure how I can debug this 
> > further.
>
> What is the warning message about?


Failed to contact security.debian.org (because I need a proxy to access 
it, my primary mirror is on the local subnet)

Thanks,



 Paul.




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