On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 04:00:54PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > I normally install in English, but with country selected as Netherlands. > As no en_NL locale exists, this results in an en_US locale and the system > is completely set up for English. > > However, that does mean that I have: > debian-installer/language=en > debian-installer/country=NL > (And not country=US...) > > If I _do_ select US, I do indeed get iamerican as default after > installation. > > So the issue is not that the logic is wrong, the issue that it is > incomplete for my case: you cannot base the correct dictionary on > language + country only. > In the case where the country does not help to make a decision, it would > be nice to also try to use the country part of the locale, which at that > time is available in (/target)/etc/default/locale: > LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
Seems that some things might have changed in d-i. At some time (See #263402) I was told that debian-installer/language contains what's appropriate for the LANGUAGE variable, so things like de_DE:de_DE:de:en_GB:en were expected values, and I assumed that LANG was set after first entry there along with the encoding info, so I got info from that place. That way, I expected d-i/language to be something like debian-installer/language=en_US:en which should work, as well as things like in the "de_DE:..." above example. I do not know if this still how d-i works, or plain english is an exception where only "en" is written. What is d-i currently doing? > Is that feasible as a wishlist request? Of course, if d-i does not set the info I expected in d-i/language and there is no simpler way to handle this. As a matter of fact "/etc/default/locale" gives the lang_country info I expected from d-i/language. When was "/etc/default/locale" introduced? If it is >=sarge, things are simpler for me, do not have to check if we are upgrading from <=woody. > What still confuses me is why I no longer see the questions being asked. I > _know_ that I would get them a lot and that I would first be asked only > en_GB and after that en_GB+en_US for ispell. > Maybe that has to do with the fact that (either or both): > - d-i (no longer?) propagates the priority set for the installation to > the target system; > - the default priority for debconf was changed from "medium" to "high". > > I can come close by installing for en/NL and forcing debconf/priority to > "medium" for the chroot, If an exact match is found priority is set to "low" so people looking for full control see the question, but in case of a fallback like in your setup it is set to "medium", so what you found is the normal behavior. > Anyway, I give up trying to reproduce that. If you could look at the > wishlist I formulated above, that would be really great and sorry for the > time this has cost everybody. At least we've now gotten a lot of > testing :-/ And this testing also suggested some possible improvements in dictionaries-common code. I did not look at the .config code for some time. -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
