On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 05:22:07PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 24 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote: > > Yes, I understand. But as tzdata is installed by debootstrap, there's no > > way to preseed it before installation. > > Preseeding during debootstrap is probably never going to happen though as > its a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem: you need to have a basic system to > be able to preseed and debootstrap is exactly what gives you that basic > system.
I understand. But then it would be fine if there would be some mechanism to reconfigure the package non-interactively. > > > Reinstalling the package _without_ purging it could work. > > Without purging, the tzdata/Zones/Etc value is left in place, so > I doubt that the value for tzdata/Zones/Etc is the problem. Yes, you're right here (see below). > Last suggestion I can give you if you want to find out _why_ things are not > working as you expect them to, is to add 'set -x' in the relevant > maintainer scripts and see what actually happens: > /var/lib/dpkg/info/tzdata.config > /var/lib/dpkg/info/tzdata.postinst tzdata.config simply don't read the debconf values. It simply checks /etc/localtime and /etc/timezone and sets the debconf values from that (with a little special handling for Etc/UTC). The postinst simply reads back those debconf settings again. The end result is that /etc/localtime and /etc/timezone simply override everything else. > > But I am still not sure whether debootstrap and debconf > > are ontopic on this list or whether this list is for d-i only. > > It's borderline on-topic. It is because you're trying to do some fancy > customized installation and because most knowledge about preseeding is to > be found on this list. It's not because it does not really have anything to > do with the installer itself. Guess you've gotten the benefit of the > doubt :-) I don't really get what you are trying to say here (english is not my native language :) If I understand correctly, debconf+preseeding are on-topic but debootstrap is not? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
