Re: [debian-edu-commits] debian-edu/ 01/01: sbin/debian-edu-pxeinstall: add 'mirror/http/mirror' (select entry) from the installed system to the preseed file to avoid manual selection during PXE installations.

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Wolfgang Schweer]
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> Author: Wolfgang Schweer <wschweer@arcor.de>
> Date:   Thu Nov 20 12:17:34 2014 +0100
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> sbin/debian-edu-pxeinstall: add 'mirror/http/mirror' (select entry)
> from the installed system to the preseed file to avoid manual
> selection during PXE installations.

Why did you leave the code below behind in the script.  It is the
existing code setting the proxy, using the preseed file:

echo "Generating $preseedfile"
(
    cat <<EOF
# Enable the Debian Edu installer overrides
d-i     anna/choose_modules     multiselect     debian-edu-install-udeb: Execute Debian-Edu debian-installer profile

# Just accept the proposed hostname and domain, as it is dynamically
# fetched from DNS.
d-i     netcfg/get_hostname     seen    true
d-i     netcfg/get_domain       seen    true

# location of the proxies, in case it is required, both http and ftp
# in case someone ask d-i to use ftp mirrors.
d-i     mirror/http/proxy       string  $http_proxy
d-i     mirror/ftp/proxy        string  $ftp_proxy

Is this code no longer working?  I suspect your fix is hiding some
other problem in the installer.

The idea with setting proxy this way was to make sure the current
proxy setting when calling debian-edu-pxeinstall is used (if the
script is called after installation), instead of the value that was
active when the machine was installed.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen