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Bug#439587: marked as done (confirm whether user wants security updates)

Your message dated Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:14:45 +0200
with message-id <20070826071445.GE3558@kheops.homeunix.org>
and subject line Bug#439587: confirm whether user wants security updates
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal

Dear Debian Installer team,

Many of us here install Debian using the net install technique, since
we've got a local mirror which is pretty fast. But there's just one
issue which we face; our connection to outside machines via HTTP is
using a proxy which authenticates against a proprietary protocol,
which cannot be established without getting other software (by
apt-getting).

Now, since the server is internal, we choose to manually enter the
server parameters. The install goes smoothly, but stops when it
automatically tries to download security updates. A simple, inelegant
workaround is to go to a console and kill the apt-get process which
wants to download the updates, but my request to you would be to ask
whether the user really wants the security updates before directly
installing them.

Thanks!

Kumar

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Quoting Kumar Appaiah (akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in):
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Debian Installer team,
> 
> Many of us here install Debian using the net install technique, since
> we've got a local mirror which is pretty fast. But there's just one
> issue which we face; our connection to outside machines via HTTP is
> using a proxy which authenticates against a proprietary protocol,
> which cannot be established without getting other software (by
> apt-getting).
> 
> Now, since the server is internal, we choose to manually enter the
> server parameters. The install goes smoothly, but stops when it
> automatically tries to download security updates. A simple, inelegant
> workaround is to go to a console and kill the apt-get process which
> wants to download the updates, but my request to you would be to ask
> whether the user really wants the security updates before directly
> installing them.


This has been implemented in apt-setup 1:0.24 and should be available
if you install *unstable* with daily built images. Please note that
this question is only asked at medium or low priority (aka "expert
mode") or by preseeding apt-setup/services-select to an empty string.

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