Bug 28367

Thank you for this detailed report & supporting evidence.
This is so precise, you should become a packager.
> I try the netinstall in order to use my local repository.
> But first I was unable.
It would be useful to know why you were unable; and why the hardcoded '80' did not work for you.

Assigning to the tools group anyway. Guessed the SRPM.

CC: (none) => lewyssmith
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-net-2.54-1.mga8.src.rpm
Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools

Even if this is reported against our Installer, I add some word in title.
This is for DrakX stage 1.

CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Summary: Enable users to specify the mirror port => Enable users to specify the mirror port in Installer
Source RPM: drakx-net-2.54-1.mga8.src.rpm => drakx-installer-images-2.82-2.mga8.src.rpm

Thanks for the corrections.

CC: lewyssmith => (none)

Care to suggest a patch?

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Created attachment 12349 [details]
Quick untested patch

CC: (none) => pterjan

> Thank you for this detailed report & supporting evidence.
> This is so precise, you should become a packager.
Thank you, I tried to do the apprentice ship, but we are lost, my mentor seems overloaded, I don't know where we are, except that I'm faaar from being a packager.
See :
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager#Apprenticeship_in_progress
I should not edit it myself to add the bug report or anything, it is not acceptable. I would disagree that someone is filling it for himself, it is like a lack of trust.


> It would be useful to know why you were unable; and why the hardcoded '80' did not work for you.
There are few possible reason, like
- 80 is a port below 1024, a restricted port, where a specific setup is needed, like apache server or nginx...
- a web server is already running on this port 80, a webserver maybe incompatible in its configuration (a different partition, file location, output limits, or maybe to set up a mirror only locally and having a webserver reachable outside home)

On my side, my mirror is on a small single board computer armv7 BananaPro. I launch the server when I need it as legacy user with 
> cd /mnt/disk/mirror/
> python3 -m http.server 8888
When I'm done, like finishing updates, I shutdown down the mirror web server.
And to update my mirror
> rsync -aHSv --delete-after --delay-updates rsync://${UPSTREAM_MIRROR_ROOT}/${VERSION}/ ./${VERSION} 2>&1 

I don't want to use the port 80 here.

how can i build a netinstall for jybz ?

I rebuilded locally drakx-installer-binaries with the patch but i miss the next step. 


Can someone help me ?

CC: (none) => mageia

install the drakx-installer-binaries, rebuild drakx-installer-images, extract iso from images rpm

Note that it was possible to build stage1 as a standalone tool for testing/debugging.
I'ven't attempted that for a long time but it should still be possible.
See https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Stage_One_install#Debugging_and_testing_the_stage1_on_a_test_machine_with_tftp

@neoclust:
drakx-installer-binaries (aka stage1) code is there:
http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/tree/mdk-stage1

If you want to do the full/slow way:
You can just patch & build drakx-installer-binaries with the above patch.
Then install the resulting package.
Then rebuild drakx-installer-images
Then boot a VM with the iso file from the newly generated drakx-installer-images:

rpm2cpio RPMS/x86_64/drakx-installer-images-2*.x86_64.rpm |cpio -id '*.iso'
mv usr/lib64/drakx-installer-images/install/images/Mageia-Cauldron-netinstall-x86_64.iso Mageia-Cauldron-netinstall-x86_64-auto.iso

Sorry wrong link:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Stage_One_install#Debugging_the_stage1_using_testing_mode

Before of not rebooting though…

Any update ?

Any update ?

Can you test the patch?
I guess I could build a local image and check it still works w/o providing a port…

@Thierry: do you think you can create an image ? for Jybz to test

Fixed in git.
Tested with:
- no port provided (default)
- explicit 8080
- explicit 80

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

(In reply to Nicolas Lécureuil from comment #14)
> @Thierry: do you think you can create an image ? for Jybz to test

Current images from https://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/install/images/ are good to use.

Maybe update mga8 netinstaller too?

CC: (none) => fri

Nope, the mga8 installer is frozen.
We can backport the fix into the drakx mga8 branch in case we would do a mga8.1 release.
But we would first have to get Jybz test result.
Note that the mga9 boot.iso can be used to install mga8.
Just pick your own local mirror

I just try it.

It works !
With the cauldron netinstall image I could install mga8 on a virtualbox with a local mirror on my network behing the 8888 port.

But... Maybe I miss a step, I got the pointer of SDDM with a black screen. I could login as root on tty2 and try urpmi --auto-update, everything was uptodate and I checked the serverlog, all requests were there.

So I confirm, it works.