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Commented out sources list

Asked by Nanley Chery

When I install the Gutsy RC offline, it comments out my sources. This is a problem because when the installation is complete and I get my wireless working, I have to fumble around for the defaults. Why are offline installations now handled this way?

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Jayson Vaughn (thedonvaughn) said : 		#1

Hello,
Thank you for your question.
However, please note that this done for security purposes.
If Ubuntu can not verify the validity of the repositories defined in /etc/apt/sources.list it will comment them out.

However, if you wish to discuss this with developers, [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a good start for determining which mailing list to use.

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Best Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#2

No, it's not for security purposes (that's handled in other ways); it's so that apt doesn't just hang uselessly if you really do have no network. Not doing this causes problems with language pack installation in some circumstances (e.g. a broken firewall that drops requests to the mirror rather than accepting or rejecting them). It should be fairly straightforward to enable the commented-out entries using System -> Administration -> Software Sources.

We have a session scheduled at the next developer summit to try to make this work more smoothly.

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Nanley Chery (nanoman) said : 		#3

Thanks Colin Watson, that solved my question.