Bug#517644: reopening

[Vincent.McIntyre@csiro.au]

package: choose-mirror
tags 517644 + reopen
thanks

Hi,

I just tried to use the lenny installer to install an etch i386 system.
The same issue as before occurs, see the /var/log/installer/syslog
extract below.

I redid the install with suite="oldstable" in the PXE boot line and got 
the same result. Unlike Jeremy's test back in March, the installer selects
'lenny-support' in both tests.

I am using the i386 netinst in the official mirrors, downloaded yesterday.
boot-screens/f1.txt says the build date was '20090123lenny1'.
However /var/log/installer/lsb-release is a little inconsistent:
  DISTRIB_RELEASE="5.0 (lenny) - installer build 20090123"
Should it not be 20090123lenny1?

Did choose-mirror-2.28lenny2 not make it in to lenny 5.0r1?
How would I check that the installer I am using has the correct version
of choose-mirror?

Question: now that 'etch-support' is no longer in testing, is it now
not possibly to try using the squeeze installer to install "oldstable"?

syslog extracts:
 May 20 07:40:10 kernel: [    0.000000] Kernel command line: auto=true
   priority=critical vga=normal suite="etch"
   initrd=debian/lenny/i386/debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz
   url=http://webserver/./preseed/debian/etch/i386/wkstn-lenny.cfg
...
  May 20 07:40:20 main-menu[1245]: INFO: Menu item 'network-preseed'
    selected
  May 20 07:40:20 preseed: successfully loaded preseed file from
     http://webserver/./preseed/debian/etch/i386/wkstn-lenny.cfg
...
  May 20 07:40:20 preseed: successfully loaded preseed file from
     http://webserver/./preseed/debian/etch/i386/mirror.cfg
...
  May 20 07:40:20 main-menu[1245]: INFO: Menu item 'choose-mirror'
    selected
  May 20 07:40:20 anna-install: Queueing udeb apt-mirror-setup for later
    installation
  May 20 07:40:20 choose-mirror[6497]: DEBUG: command: wget -q
    http://apt-proxy:9999/debian//dists/oldstable/Release -O - |
    grep ^Suite: | cut -d' ' -f 2
  May 20 07:40:21 choose-mirror[6497]: DEBUG: command: wget -q
    http://apt-proxy:9999/debian//dists/stable/Release -O - |
    grep ^Codename: | cut -d' ' -f 2
  May 20 07:40:22 choose-mirror[6497]: INFO: codename set to: lenny
  May 20 07:40:22 choose-mirror[6497]: DEBUG: command: wget -q
    http://apt-proxy:9999/debian//dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Release
    -O - | grep Architecture
...

As before I manually checked the wget commands and got the right answer,
ie oldstable/Release has Codename: etch. But as before the installer 
resets choose-mirror/suite to 'stable'.

The mirror preseed contains these settings:
 d-i mirror/protocol         string http
 d-i mirror/country          string enter information manually
 d-i mirror/http/countries   select enter information manually
 d-i mirror/http/hostname    string apt-proxy:9999
 d-i mirror/http/directory   string /debian/
 d-i mirror/http/proxy       string
 d-i mirror/suite            string oldstable
 d-i mirror/codename         string etch
 d-i apt-setup/services-select    multiselect  security
 d-i apt-setup/security_host      string      apt-proxy:9999/security
 d-i apt-setup/contrib            boolean      true
 d-i apt-setup/non-free           boolean      true