[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> The following patch should do the job, assuming the debconf and
> locales package is available.
Here is a new one, without debconf. If the CD is built using the
standard debian-cd package, the locales package will be available. It
is in section base and priority standard
[Joey Hess]
> Why do people keep mumbling about reconfiguring debconf as part of
> the install process? That is utterly not needed.
No idea. Someone told me locales depended on debconf, and that it had
to be listed in the --includes list, and I believed it.
Checking 'debootstrap --print-deps w
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Hm, perhaps base-config need to reconfigure debconf if it was
> installed by debootstrap? My previous patch for base-config did not
> implement that.
Why do people keep mumbling about reconfiguring debconf as part of the
install process? That is utterly not needed.
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 20:26, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> +#ifdef USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER
> + /* Needed to generate locale data */
> + /* Hm, need to make sure these packages are available */
> + argv[argnum++] = "--include=debconf,locales";
> +#endif /* USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER */
Can you remind me
[Eduard Bloch]
> Yes. But I still don't see why you need the massive changes in
> dbootstrap if base-config is doing the job.
The following patch should do the job, assuming the debconf and
locales package is available.
Hm, perhaps base-config need to reconfigure debconf if it was
installed by d
[Eduard Bloch]
> In generaly the second, but the first is also okay _if_ you run
> dpkg-reconfigure locales somewhere in base-config.
Well, I thing the second is outside the scope of the install system.
I have a new patch which should take care of both.
> Yes. But I still don't see why you need
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit:
> A while ago, you discussed on debian-boot about better boot-floppies and
> base-config localisation. I did the same thing, but due to lack of time
> and more important tasks, this was not possible. Now, some weeks later,
> we created some
[Phil Blundell]
> I don't think setting a system-wide default locale is within the
> boot-floppies remit at this time.
I agree.
> As to the extract_base.c patch: it's kind of tempting to say that
> locales should just be installed by default. Those who want the
> disk space more than the i18n
#include
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote on Thu Mar 07, 2002 um 03:17:22PM:
> - use the current language during the second stage installation
>(base-config)
> - use the current language and locale as the system default for all
>users after the second stage installer is finished.
>
> Which o
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 14:17, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> - use the current language and locale as the system default for all
>users after the second stage installer is finished.
I don't think setting a system-wide default locale is within the
boot-floppies remit at this time. We should pro
[Anthony Towns]
> I'm not really happy with this. Adding random new features to
> boot-floppies right now is a very very bad idea. Our goals right now
> are to make sure what we've currently got works for doing installs
> on all architectures, not making stuff more elegant, and whatever.
Well, I
I've been studying your patch, and have some comments and an improved
patch.
[Eduard Bloch]
> Now, some weeks later, we created some infrastructure (*) and you
> discussed about possible implementations (patches attached). So the
> concret plans of mine:
>
> - add additional prompt, asking the
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 13:35, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> [Philip Blundell]
> > Given a locale string in german.src of "de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro", you
> > ideally want to be writing "de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15" into
> > /etc/locale.gen and setting LANG to "de_DE@euro".
>
> There is no need to rewrit
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 13:33, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Could someone add this patch:
Seems safe enough. I've checked it in.
p.
> Index: util.c
> ===
> RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/util.c,v
> ret
[Philip Blundell]
> Given a locale string in german.src of "de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro", you
> ideally want to be writing "de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15" into
> /etc/locale.gen and setting LANG to "de_DE@euro".
There is no need to rewrite the LANG content.
"de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro" is a synonym for "de_DE@e
[Eduard Bloch]
> Look okay. Few questions:
>
> - we use weird locales strings on BFs, in the form of
>xx_YY.charset@euro. You extract this with re on
>my ($locale) = $LANG =~ m/^([^.@]+)/;
>and write this into /etc/locale.gen. I am not sure, but IMHO this
>extracts only the xx_
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:17:05PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> (*) BFs can install additional packages when isntalling from CD or from
> net. There should still be one hook to disable wants_locale if we are
> isntalling from prepared basedebs.tar.
I'm not really happy with this. Adding random ne
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 22:21, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> As said, please first check the expressions, and compare with mine. This
> all was needed to extract charset and lang string (inc. @euro) and
> fixing the charset (ISO88... -> ISO-88...).
If some piece of software can't cope with "ISO8859-1" as a
#include
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote on Wed Mar 06, 2002 um 10:16:01PM:
> Yes. I even submitted some patches, bug #135565 "base-config:
> Improved handling of LANG and LANGUAGE during install". Joey said the
> patches looked sane, but wanted me to test them properly before he
Look okay. Few que
[Eduard Bloch]
> A while ago, you discussed on debian-boot about better boot-floppies and
> base-config localisation.
Yes. I even submitted some patches, bug #135565 "base-config:
Improved handling of LANG and LANGUAGE during install". Joey said the
patches looked sane, but wanted me to test t
A while ago, you discussed on debian-boot about better boot-floppies and
base-config localisation. I did the same thing, but due to lack of time
and more important tasks, this was not possible. Now, some weeks later,
we created some infrastructure (*) and you discussed about possible
implementatio
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