Okay thanks for your reply.
But what is the use case for debconf with locales as illustrated in the 
http://docs.ansible.com/debconf_module.html

Once a use debconf what's next ?

Thanks

Alain


Le jeudi 11 septembre 2014 19:53:30 UTC+2, Karl Jorgensen a écrit :
>
> Hi 
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 08:40:33AM -0700, Alainkr wrote: 
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > I'm doing on a on a debian wheezy the vanila : 
> > 
> >     - debconf: name=locales question='locales/locales_to_be_generated' 
>  value= 
> > 'en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8' vtype='multiselect' 
> >     - debconf: name=locales 
> question='locales/default_environment_locale' value 
> > =fr_FR.UTF-8 vtype='select' 
> > 
> > 
> > yet nothing happens... 
> > 
> > /etc/default/locale untouched 
> > cat ./locale.gen |grep -v "^#" untouched 
>
> That is to be expected. Debconf only changes the configuration 
> *database* - which is typically used when pre-seeding installation of 
> packages. 
>
> Once installed, changing this will have little effect: Well-behaved 
> packages will read the current configuration files (files: not debconf 
> database), and use those as defaults for the configuration answers. 
> So I cannot see it being of any use unless you are *installing* 
> packages. 
>
> To reconfigure packages afterwards, you're better off updating the 
> relevant configuration files - usually followed by a restart of the 
> relevant daemon(s). 
>
> It is worth noting that the debconf database must not be confused with 
> a registry. It is not. The *real* configuration is in the 
> configuration files : /etc/somewhere.  Debconf is just a handy way for 
> package developers to interact with the user, and not worry about the 
> user interface. 
> > 
> > The strange thing is that on the 1st pass state is "changed" and not 
> > after. 
>
> Yes - It changed the value in the database on the first run. On 
> subsequent runs, the database value does not need changing. 
>
> Hope this helps 
>
> -- 
> Karl E. Jorgensen 
>

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