On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 10:35, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Should the string to put in /etc/locale.gen be passed in as well? It > is required to generate the valid locale. I'm not sure if it easy to > guess is string based on the locale, or if it is easy to guess locale > based on this string.
It's fairly easy to go in either direction. There's certainly no need to pass both of them separately. Either dbootstrap can just write out /etc/locale.gen itself, in which case base-config just needs to call locale-gen to do the actual generation, or base-config could generate the contents of /etc/locale.gen based on $LANG. I don't think it makes a great deal of difference. > Should the country or region be passed as well? Only in the sense that it's encoded in $LANG. I don't think it's necessary to pass anything else. > If the information is passed into base-config, then it can be > base-configs responsibility to generate the required locale. It > should be able to test if the locale is present, and generate it if it > is missing. I'm not quite sure how it could test this, but checking > /usr/lib/locale/ can be a start. Regenerating the locale is harmless enough even if it already exists. I don't think this is something that we should worry about too much. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
