@Evan: I've rolled an apt package locally with that patch and patched it in during install to see the improvement. It appears to solve the immediate general issue at hand.
Per Steve's comment though - if it's known that it will fail contacting servers, I think it would still be a good idea to try to support a preseed that skips the apt-get update step. That's still a whole minute that is lost on every system installed (30s per server; archive.canonical.com and $CC.archive.ubuntu.com). I'll attach an updated syslog with /usr/lib/apt/methods/http patched. ** Attachment added: "syslog" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/44174182/syslog -- System takes forever trying to contact uncontactable sources during install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/556831 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
