Package: live-config Version: 2.0.15-1 Severity: important Tags: squeeze sid
Hi Live-Team, I spotted another incompatibility between a .deb and how the Live system is handling its behaviour (similar to live vs. dwww). Usually I boot my live-systems so that LIVE_TIMEZONE="Europe/Berlin" gets set (via cmdline or /etc/live/config.d depending on the use-case, but not the point here). Just a few days ago it so happened that the tzdata package got updated and the whole dpkg configure shabang was invoked...which sadly left me with UTC set as my current timezone. What happened? On the one hand, tzdata politely stores the options selected during e.g. 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' in the debconf db (and I had the correct settings for Europe/Berlin pre-seeded during creation of the live image). However on the next invocation, those selections only get applied to cities, not continents. When selecting a new continent, say Asia instead of Europe, then a city selected in a previous run of reconfigure gets pre-selected again. What happens when run with --frontend=non-interactive is a whole other story and completely independent of debconf: the debconf selections have no impact whatsoever and whatever tuple of continent/city is stored in /etc/timezone determines which tz data get copied to /etc/localtime. So here's the thing: live-config's 005-tzdata (squeeze) or 006-tzdata (live-* 3.x) handles the actual copying of tzdata and setting the pre-selections in debconf DB but not the /etc/timezone file. Solution 1: 00[56]-tzdata echo's LIVE_TIMEZONE to /etc/timezone Solution 2: tzdata changes its behaviour to mind debconf DB instead of /etc/timezone Which one is appropriate? Your thoughts? Cheers Daniel -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-dhr-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages live-config depends on: ii live-config-sysvinit [live-co 2.0.15-1 Debian Live - System Configuration Versions of packages live-config recommends: ii sudo 1.7.4p4-2.squeeze.2 Provide limited super user privile ii user-setup 1.38 Set up initial user and password Versions of packages live-config suggests: ii wget 1.12-2.1 retrieves files from the web -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111112194127.19044.75738.report...@sb74.startrek.nachtgeist.net
