Hi Shane, Shane Gibson <sygibson@gmail.com> (2019-07-16): > I work on infrastructure provisioning automation (Digital Rebar > Provision). We're adding in Buster support right now. Bumped in to an > issue with d-i and our preseed we normally use. A working Stretch preseed > "mostly works" - but requires interactive input for "mirror hostname" and > "mirror directory". > > I tried to set: > > d-i mirror/protocol string https > d-i mirror/http/hostname string mirrors.edge.kernel.org > d-i mirror/http/directory string /debian > > > However, this causes the installation to fail with a hard error. It would help to see what error message you're getting… > My question: Are there any pointers for changes around the > "select-mirror" processing bits, and/or the preseed that need to be > made to support Buster for automated deployment? That component is called choose-mirror and its repository is here: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/choose-mirror Looking at versions: kibi@armor:~/debian-installer/packages/choose-mirror$ rmadison choose-mirror choose-mirror | 2.62 | oldoldstable | source, all choose-mirror | 2.79+deb9u1 | oldstable | source, all choose-mirror | 2.99 | stable | source, all choose-mirror | 2.99 | testing | source, all choose-mirror | 2.99 | unstable | source, all so you want to be checking what happened between tags 2.79+deb9u1 and 2.99. Excluding translations, that's about: kibi@armor:~/debian-installer/packages/choose-mirror$ COLUMNS=80 git diff --stat 2.79+deb9u1..2.99 -- . ':(exclude)debian/po/*' debian/changelog | 234 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----- debian/choose-mirror-bin.templates.http-in | 3 +- debian/control | 6 +- mirrors.h | 2 +- 4 files changed, 206 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) > I have dug through the News archives for the Buster release, and see > that there are changes around the Mirror list, and references to other > changes, but I could not find a cohesive list of what might have > changed. My apologies if I missed something there. Having written those entries, and checking the above-mentioned diff briefly, I don't think you've missed anything. The major change is defaulting to deb.debian.org instead of the historical ftp.<CC>.d.o for many countries. > Example of a fully working Stretch preseed: > https://gist.github.com/sygibson/450f4529920cf86b58102267ed0ed085 > Examples of a pressed with hostname/directory - that did NOT work: > https://gist.github.com/sygibson/44acbeb71510ed24587de76d31d5f26a Quoting the preseed files in full is always a good idea, but I'm personally not going to try and replicate locally. Please quote the error message, and possibly extract the full syslog file (/var/log/syslog); you might need to compress it due to size limits on the Debian mailing lists. More about reporting installation issues: https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/ch05s04.en.html#problem-report Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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