Thanks for your patch! Unfortunately, it cannot be included in Ubuntu for the
following reasons:
* it ships a new postinst.in which is used to update postinst via a sed in
debian/rules. This is messy and postinst should be adjusted directly with no
changes to debian/rules or the additional file.
* the file postinst.in intends to update
/usr/share/package-data-downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer via some brittle
regular expressions and sed calls (fyi, you might be interested in 'sed -i' for
future scripting). A better solution is to simply adjust update-ms-fonts to
honor URLOVERRIDE
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updating the patch. Thanks again.
** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => In Progress
** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Siggi Langauf (s-langauf)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022891
Title:
Regression bug: can't preseed download location
Status in “msttcorefonts” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Bug description:
For some time already we have been using preseed to specify our local
repository containing the Microsoft fonts. The main reason for this is
that we have a pretty complicated proxy environment and it's much
easier to provide the local repository directly.
So we have used those preseed entries:
ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/dlurl string
http://@HOSTNAME@@DIRECTORY@/msttcorefonts/
ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula boolean true
The postinst script says it all:
# FIXME: we don't have a way to use an alternate download source here.
db_get msttcorefonts/dlurl
URLOVERRIDE=$RET
The rules file seems to generate a static URLROOT pointing to
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/ and the URLOVERRIDE is
ignored.
Our 12.04 workstations have some real issues with that. We have not
worked that around yet.
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