aptly repo as netinstall mirror

[aptly...@compudent.net]

Hello,

we use aptly as packet repository for ubuntu and debian. It works fine and we don't have to use external sources. But it fails, if I want to use it as netinstall mirror with preeseed file.

Here some informations:

aptly version: 0.9.7

commands to build mirror, snapshots and publish

 

aptly mirror create -architectures=amd64 wheezy-non-free http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy non-free

aptly mirror create -architectures=amd64 wheezy-contrib http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib

aptly mirror create -architectures=amd64 wheezy-main http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main

aptly mirror update wheezy-non-free

aptly mirror update wheezy-contrib

aptly mirror update wheezy-main

aptly snapshot create wheezy-non-free from mirror wheezy-non-free

aptly snapshot create wheezy-contrib from mirror wheezy-contrib

aptly snapshot create wheezy-main from mirror wheezy-main

aptly snapshot merge wheezy wheezy-main wheezy-contrib wheezy-non-free

aptly publish snapshot -distribution=wheezy wheezy wheezy

I use the preseed install with follow commands:

d-i mirror/country string manual

d-i mirror/http/hostname string aptlyserverFQDN

d-i mirror/http/directory string /wheezy

d-i mirror/http/proxy string 

#d-i mirror/udeb/components /main

d-i mirror/suite string wheezy

d-i mirror/udeb/suite string wheezy

d-i apt-setup/security_host string aptlyserverFQDN

the wheezy install console display a Error:

"Download installer components"

"Downloading a file failed:"

"Retry, Change mirror, cancel"

nginx Log at the aptly server:

10.0.69.115 - - [19/Sep/2016:13:43:34 +0200] "GET /wheezy/dists/oldstable/Release HTTP/1.1" 404 178 "-" "Wget"

10.0.69.115 - - [19/Sep/2016:13:43:34 +0200] "GET /wheezy/dists/stable/Release HTTP/1.1" 404 178 "-" "Wget"

10.0.69.115 - - [19/Sep/2016:13:43:34 +0200] "GET /wheezy/dists/testing/Release HTTP/1.1" 404 178 "-" "Wget"

10.0.69.115 - - [19/Sep/2016:13:43:34 +0200] "GET /wheezy/dists/unstable/Release HTTP/1.1" 404 178 "-" "Wget"

10.0.69.115 - - [19/Sep/2016:13:43:34 +0200] "GET /wheezy/dists/wheezy/Release HTTP/1.1" 200 2298 "-" "Wget"

10.0.69.115 - - [19/Sep/2016:13:43:34 +0200] "GET /wheezy/dists/wheezy/main/binary-amd64/Release HTTP/1.1" 200 95 "-" "Wget"

10.0.69.115 - - [19/Sep/2016:13:43:34 +0200] "GET /wheezy/dists/wheezy/Release HTTP/1.1" 200 2298 "-" "Wget"

10.0.69.115 - - [19/Sep/2016:13:43:34 +0200] "GET /wheezy/dists/wheezy/Release.gpg HTTP/1.1" 200 473 "-" "Wget"

Does anyone have a hint? 

Best regards

Christoph

[ari...@gmail.com]

I found out the hard way that some things are hardcoded in the netinstall, you might try more conventional prefix /ubuntu/ instead of /wheezy/ and keep chenges as minimal as possible ;)
For example using

d-i mirror/suite string trusty-stable
d-i mirror/udeb/suite string trusty-stable

instead of the conventional trusty resulted in similar problems until we added

d-i partman/early_command cp /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/trusty /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/trusty-stable