retitle 510908 tzdata doesn't respect debconf preseeding tag 510908 patch thanks
On 05/16/2011 04:49 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > tzdata should use data from debconf if neither /etc/localtime nor > /etc/timezone, otherwise it should default to the value read from these > files. exactely; the problem here is that tzdata in config, if neither /etc/timezone nor /etc/localtime is present, and debconf values are stored in the db, then tzdata does *not* generate /etc/timezone from the values of debconf. attached is a patch that fixed that. Regards, Daniel -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: [email protected] Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/
>From 3bcceafec00aa0a6485b1a80f79a57602fa01b49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:35:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Correcting debconf config script to respect preseeding of tzdata (Closes: #510908). --- debian/config | 13 ++++++++----- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/config b/debian/config index 4a00f9c..a910e0f 100644 --- a/debian/config +++ b/debian/config @@ -356,11 +356,14 @@ if [ -e /etc/timezone ] && [ -e /etc/localtime ] ; then fi # The timezone has never been configured or is falsely configured elif ! [ -e /etc/localtime ] || [ -n "$DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE" ] ; then - if [ -z "$AREA" ] || [ -z "$ZONE" ] ; then - AREA="Etc" - ZONE="UTC" - echo "Etc/UTC" > /etc/timezone - fi + AREA="Etc" + ZONE="UTC" + + db_get tzdata/Areas && AREA="$RET" + db_get tzdata/Zones/$AREA && ZONE="$RET" + + echo "$AREA/$ZONE" > /etc/timezone + db_fset tzdata/Areas seen false db_fset tzdata/Zones/$AREA seen false # The user want to handle the timezone by him/herself -- 1.7.4.4
