On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 01:58:39AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > > tzdata 2007b-1 (in etch) does not use debconf.
Thanks for the clarification, Joey! > Right. Etch still used tzconfig to set the timezone. I forgot about that. > > That means Josef will probably just have to set the timezone the way we did > it in D-I, which can be seen in this script: > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/d-i/branches/d-i/etch/packages/tzsetup/post-base-installer.d/05tzsetup?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 OK, I'll do it this way. But even tzdata-2007j (which is used in ubuntu/gutsy) behaves somewhat unexpected (at least to me). Here is what I see after a fresh debootstrap: $ sudo chroot gutsy/target apt-get install debconf-utils [ ... ] $ sudo chroot gutsy/target debconf-show tzdata tzdata/Zones/Australia: tzdata/Zones/Asia: * tzdata/Zones/Etc: UTC tzdata/Zones/SystemV: tzdata/Zones/Africa: tzdata/Zones/America: tzdata/Zones/Arctic: tzdata/Zones/Pacific: * tzdata/Areas: Etc tzdata/Zones/Antarctica: tzdata/Zones/Atlantic: tzdata/Zones/Canada: tzdata/Zones/Europe: tzdata/Zones/Indian: OK, this seems to be OK, since there's no way to preseed packages which are installed by debootstrap (I guess tha would be a new feature request for debootstrap). Then I preseed tzdata: $ cat gutsy/target/etc/preseed tzdata tzdata/Areas select Europe tzdata tzdata/Areas seen true tzdata tzdata/Zones/Europe select Berlin tzdata tzdata/Zones/Europe seen true $ sudo chroot guts/target debconf-set-selections /etc/preseed [ ... ] $ sudo chroot gutsy/target debconf-show tzdata tzdata/Zones/Australia: tzdata/Zones/Asia: * tzdata/Zones/Etc: UTC tzdata/Zones/SystemV: tzdata/Zones/Africa: tzdata/Zones/America: tzdata/Zones/Arctic: tzdata/Zones/Pacific: * tzdata/Areas: Europe tzdata/Zones/Antarctica: tzdata/Zones/Atlantic: tzdata/Zones/Canada: * tzdata/Zones/Europe: Berlin tzdata/Zones/Indian: Please note that tzdata/Zones/Etc is still set to UTC. $ sudo chroot gutsy/target dpkg-reconfigure tzdata [ ... ] In the following dialog, I am interactively asked the questions, although I explicitly set the values as seen. The fist asked question (tzdata/Zones/Etc) defaults to "UTC". I then manually choose Europe. The second question defaults to "Berlin". This means, the values are _somehow_ recognized, but the tzdata/Zones/Etc value is not cleared properly. > > (BTW, several people in this thread have seemed to not be aware that > > debconf-set-selections automatically sets the seen flag of preseeded > > values.) But dpkg-reconfigure still asks, even though I explicitly set them as "seen". BTW: Merry Christmas! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
