Enrique Zanardi writes: > IIRC, there are no font files in the root floppy. We should add support > for different console fonts if(when) we add message catalogs for non-latin1 > languages. OTOH, most of those files are not too big (~4 or 5 KB > uncompressed) so it won't be hard to add a few fonts more.
OK, let's forget that till the messages files are there. > > But I can > > replace calls to "loadkeys file" by "zcat -f file | loadkeys", but > > your own zcat will have to support "-f" in order for the script to be > > portable enough (ie. loading uncompressed keymaps too). > > > > If it doesn't, I can still provide the "zcat file | loadkeys" > > behaviour by adding a command-line switch. > > > > Please tell me what is to be done. kbd is the next package I'll work > > on, if no critical bugs appear in e2fsprogs or tkman. > > Well, as the problem is in loadkeys (we don't use kbdconfig in the > install system) I still think the best solution is changing "gzip -c -d %s" > in loadkeys to "zcat <%s". (Note the "<". "zcat" in the root floppy is a > filter, it only uncompresses stdin to stdout). The "con" is that it won't > work on systems where zcat is not the gzip one but the older compress > one (not too much of a concern for Linux systems). Hmmm... I don't like this idea much. Maybe it would cost less if you just make the floppies invoke "zcat <file | loadkeys" ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.a2points.com/homepage/3475232 | Check <http://www.debian.org/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
