On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:26:31AM +0100, Nagy Peter.1 wrote: > if /etc/locale.gen doesn't contain the string "XXX GENERATED XXX", it > will ignore whatever is set at config time, and won't change > /etc/locale.gen. Yours is from some old system that did it a different > way, and thus doesn't contain this string. So much for clean upgrades. > > solution: delete /etc/locale.gen, and _then_ do dpkg-reconfigure
Thank you; I did this and it worked great. > PS: wouldn't it be better if config simply overwrote /etc/locale.gen > no-matter-what? I don't know; I suppose some people might want to manually configure this package. But it should certainly overwrite it my case: collecting choices from the user and then silently throwing them away because a file is still in an old format is bad. Thanks, Christopher -- Christopher Allen . + . -===""===- c==== . email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * . . \ \____}} WWW: http://ruah.dyndns.org/~cpcallen/ . * @====-' . snail: Studio 10, 319 Archway Rd. London N6 5AA U.K. . *
