Bug#819300: should provide default HTTPS mirrors for non-Debian releases too

[Evgeni Golov]

Hi,

sorry, this somehow slipped my inbox.

On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 05:50:39PM -0800, Julien Cristau wrote:

> > currently debootstrap only knows about an HTTPS mirror for Debian, but not 
> > e.g. for Ubuntu.
> 
> Does ubuntu even run https mirrors?  A pointer to official documentation
> would be appreciated, I couldn't find it in a quick search.

https://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/ is a prominent https mirror.

Sadly https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors does not list any https 
mirrors.
Neither does archive.ubuntu.com offer https.

But then again, I can't find official documentation that Debian offers https 
mirrors either ;)

Cheers
Evgeni

Bug#819300: should provide default HTTPS mirrors for non-Debian releases too

[Julien Cristau]

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On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 10:51:21AM +0100, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> Package: debootstrap
> Version: 1.0.80
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> currently debootstrap only knows about an HTTPS mirror for Debian, but not 
> e.g. for Ubuntu.

Does ubuntu even run https mirrors?  A pointer to official documentation
would be appreciated, I couldn't find it in a quick search.

Cheers,
Julien

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Bug#819300: should provide default HTTPS mirrors for non-Debian releases too

[Evgeni Golov]

Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.80
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

currently debootstrap only knows about an HTTPS mirror for Debian, but not e.g. 
for Ubuntu.
This can have funny results when trying to bootstrap an Ubuntu release w/o 
having ubuntu-archive-keyring installed:

% sudo debootstrap xenial /tmp/xenial
I: Keyring file not available at 
/usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg; switching to https mirror 
https://mirrors.kernel.org/debian
I: Retrieving Release 
E: Failed getting release file 
https://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/xenial/Release

Explicitly setting the mirror helps. But I think the Ubuntu scripts should not 
only override DEF_MIRROR but also DEF_HTTPS_MIRROR.

Greets
Evgeni

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii  wget  1.17.1-1+b1

Versions of packages debootstrap recommends:
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2014.3
ii  gnupg   1.4.20-4

debootstrap suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information