First I would suggest for localization stuff to use the appropriate package, localization-config. It offers the framework to do package configuration based on the locale info, without so much as changing base-config itself. There are some example scripts there that you could use as base. What in particular do you want to do?
Konstantinos On ÎÎÏ 05 ÎÎÎ 2004 15:55, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Hi > > I want to configure some packages in the base-config script using > the value of the two-letter country code (e.g: "us", "uk", "il"). > > The information is available in debconf. However the following > command seems t give an indication that the debconf database is > locked when run from a base-config script: > > country_answer=`echo GET debian-installer/country | > debconf-communicate 2>/dev/null` case "$country" in > 0*)country_lc=`echo $country_answer |sed -e 's/0 *//' | tr A-Z > a-z`;; *) > # debconf failed > logger "could not get country name from debconf using 'en'" > country_lc='en' > ;; > esac > > How can I read that value from debconf? > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+
