Bug#698528: debian-installer: BusyBox's wget doesn't preseed from HTTPS
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20121114
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
When running automatic installation with preseed file, the installer
fails to download the preseed config file if provided from a HTTPS
location, e.g.
preseed/url=https://raw.github.com/kernc/linux-home/master/debfix-preseed.cfg
The limitation is that of BusyBox's wget, which doesn't handle
HTTPS.
Since original wget is part of base install and thus inherently
present on the medium, can't it somehow be used instead of the
BusyBox version?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
-- no debconf information
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