Okay, as this is a real showstopper here, I've just forked the package
locally and applied the following changes to fix the issue:
First, I added a little snippet to postinst in order to pull in the
override URL from debconf:
diff -u msttcorefonts-3.4ubuntu3/debian/postinst
msttcorefonts-hotfix/debian/postinst.in
--- msttcorefonts-3.4ubuntu3/debian/postinst 2012-04-07 22:49:32.000000000
+0200
+++ msttcorefonts-hotfix/debian/postinst.in 2012-08-24 14:49:45.000000000
+0200
@@ -6,10 +6,21 @@
db_get msttcorefonts/dldir
LOCALCOPY=$RET
-# FIXME: we don't have a way to use an alternate download source here.
+URLROOT=#URLROOT#
db_get msttcorefonts/dlurl
URLOVERRIDE=$RET
+if test -n "$URLOVERRIDE"; then
+ DLFILE=/usr/share/package-data-downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer
+ echo "substituting $URLOVERRIDE for corefonts download URL..."
+ SEARCH=$(echo "$URLROOT"|sed -e 's/\//\\\//g')
+ REPLACE=$(echo "$URLOVERRIDE"|sed -e 's/\//\\\//g')
+ sed -e "s/$SEARCH/$REPLACE/" <$DLFILE >$DLFILE.new \
+ && mv $DLFILE.new $DLFILE
+ echo "dlurl sed -e \"s/^Url: .*(\/[^/]+.exe)/Url: $REPLACE\1/\" <$DLFILE
>$DLFILE.new"
+ cp $DLFILE /usr/local/ttf-mscorefonts-installer.dlfile
+fi
+
stamp_file=/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer
if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt-nl 3.4ubuntu3 \
As you may have noted, I had to rename "debian/postinst" to
"debian/postinst.in" in order to be able to add the base URL from
debian/rules during package build time. One could just repeat the URL
in debian/postinst, which I found too error-prone. The following line in
debian/rules generates postinst from postinst.in:
diff -u msttcorefonts-3.4ubuntu3/debian/rules msttcorefonts-hotfix/debian/rules
--- msttcorefonts-3.4ubuntu3/debian/rules 2012-04-09 07:05:54.000000000
+0200
+++ msttcorefonts-hotfix/debian/rules 2012-08-24 15:36:18.000000000 +0200
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
dh $@
override_dh_auto_install:
+ sed -e 's/#URLROOT#/'$$(echo $(URLROOT)|sed -e 's/\//\\\//g')'/'
<debian/postinst.in >debian/postinst
mkdir -p debian/tmp/usr/share/package-data-downloads
while read sum file; do \
echo "Url: $(URLROOT)$$file"; \
Hope that somebody picks this up soon...
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Regression bug: can't preseed download location
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