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Paul Weaver
April 21st, 2011, 05:58 PM
When I build boxes, I do a network boot, and use a preseed file pointing to a local apt-cacher proxy.

This makes my sources.list file look like this:

deb http://10.11.14.115:3142/security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security universe


That generally works fine, however I sometimes get a problem with downloading of release.gpg from one site or another. APT goes into an infinite loop.

The workarround is the following


echo 'Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth "0";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99http

Which I do as part of the install. Unfortunatly in many cases the install won't complete, because of the infinite loop.

Is there any way of using the preseed script to pass
"Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth "0";"

Something like

d-i apt-setup/acquire/http/pipeline-depth 0

thanks