[Bug 1110676] [NEW] Installation: download updates while installing seems to have done nothing

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I was installing Ubuntu 12.10. This was a fresh install  into a newly
made partition. The system was on the corporate LAN, which has
functional DHCP, DNS and internet connectivity.  I selected "download
updates while installing". The system installed normally - but the
moment I went to install an additional package, I found that a large
number [100s, I believe] of packages needed to be updated.  I used the
Unity desktop's GUI tool to accomplish this, which worked fine - with no
manual tinkering with my network settings at any time, beyond telling
the installer the machine's name. (I.e. if internet access worked at
that time, it should have worked before the post-install reboot.)

Either this is a no-op, or it only installs _some_ of the needed updates
- or it's very literal, and downloaded them without installing them, and
the GUI tool found where it had placed them. [It doesn't give me as much
visibility into what it's doing as if I'd used "apt-get upgrade".]

I didn't see any error messages during the installation process. I don't
know what may have been logged, and no longer have access to the system
to check farther details.

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Installation: download updates while installing seems to have done nothing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1110676
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