Preseed example needs an update

Bug #1316242 reported by Nick Minkler
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Bug Description

the preseed example for 14.04 Trusty is listed as being for squeeze and doesn't appear to have been updated: https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/installation-guide/example-preseed.txt

The preseed documentation could also use updating as it includes kernel 2.6 references, and doesn't give a concise list of options necessary for a simple preseed. The example is supposed to provide this but the option in the example are much different than what a debconf-get-selections --installer generates, which is a bit confusing to me.

affects: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) → installation-guide (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in installation-guide (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package installation-guide - 20150528ubuntu1

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installation-guide (20150528ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable; LP: #887663.
    - fixes a wrong init script name for dhcpd. LP: #666726.
    - fixes a typo in the table of memory requirements. LP: #1030336.
    - drops obsolete mention of 2.6 kernels in keyboard preseeding.
      LP: #1000354.
    - fixes wrong make-kpkg example invocation. LP: #1019906.
    - fixes stale link to debian-installer subversion repo. LP: #1233732.
  * Remaining changes:
    - Extensive (although possibly incomplete) Ubuntu branding, adjustments
      for our mirror layout, etc.
    - Build only English (for now, until we figure out how to avoid trashing
      translations quite so badly with Ubuntu branding etc.).
    - Drop build-dependency on poxml for now, since we don't ship any
      translations.
    - Add "Ubuntu and Debian" and "What is Ubuntu?" section, text borrowed
      from the Ubuntu web site. Disable the "What is Debian GNU/Linux?"
      section.
    - Build only Ubuntu architectures (amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc,
      ppc64el, s390x).
    - Direct installation reports to ubuntu-users for now.
    - Document mounting /sys in various places.
    - Update chroot-install guide for language packs; add
      a bit more advice about installing grub.
    - Document our root password and sudo arrangements.
    - Adjust various memory and disk space requirements. Talk about the
      default Ubuntu desktop and Ubuntu tasks rather than Debian tasks.
    - Document network-console/authorized_keys_url feature
    - Document mirror/udeb/components.
    - Document scheme for preseeding the use of CC.archive.ubuntu.com
      mirrors.
    - Document how to override the weak password check.
    - Document preseeding user-setup's home directory encryption facility.
    - Document new simplified partman preseeding.
    - Document partman-auto-lvm/guided_size.
    - Document partman/default_filesystem.
    - Document live-installer/net-image.
    - Improve examples of tasksel/first preseeding to avoid mentioning
      standard, which is installed by default.
    - Document pkgsel/update-policy.
    - Document pkgsel/updatedb.
    - Document apt-setup/security_path.
    - Disable documentation of win32-loader.
    - Document netboot-style USB images. Still mention the hd-media images,
      but they're downplayed since many USB sticks are too small for a full
      Ubuntu ISO image.
    - Retain delta for commented-out OldWorld Mac support because it's easier
      than reverting it; but at this point OldWorld Macs will almost
      certainly never be supported in Ubuntu or Debian.
    - Remove comments about automatic installation methods that have been
      removed from Ubuntu.
    - Document Kickstart installations.
    - Unset supports-floppy-boot for all our architectures.
    - Don't recommend passing http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu to
      debootstrap.
    - Document that i586 processors and i686 without cmov are no longer
      supported.
  * Dropped changes, included in Debian:
    - Update keyboard preseeding documentation for conso...

Changed in installation-guide (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Nick Minkler (nick-minkler) wrote :

The deployed web-page for trusty still indicates that it is for squeeze, a debian only release. I'm unsure if the actual update guide has been deployed properly to the ubuntu website. Please see the original link: https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/installation-guide/example-preseed.txt

Changed in installation-guide (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Incomplete
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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote :

@nick-minkler

The bug is fixed for the development series, that is xenial specifically. Thus for xenial, the correct status is fix released. If this change is required to be SRUed into stable releases (e.g. trusty), please follow steps at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates to request such a change.

Changed in installation-guide (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote :

Also this is for the package contents in the archive, rather than deployed webpages.

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Nick Minkler (nick-minkler) wrote :

So couple things: I didn't tag this bug for a specific package. I reported it specifically about incorrect documentation about the website. Someone else decided to move it to a package, I thought this was because the package was deployed to the web. If this is inaccurate, then the bug was incorrectly tagged as being for a package, and thus my original is still valid and stands. The public-facing website documentation still publishes incorrect information about the trusty release.

I don't have time to create and SRU over something I already reported as a bug and needed enhancement for a specific release when I already did that. If canonical is fine with having incorrect documentation about their product then that's fine. Otherwise this should probably be re-opened and the documentation should be fixed as indicated.

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote :

I've marked this bug to still affect trusty, and thus it has a separate bug status for that series.

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