On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote: > David Kalnischkies, le Thu 30 Aug 2012 19:43:21 +0200, a écrit : >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]> wrote: >> > We could add a switch to apt-cdrom to copy all configured locales for >> > d-i purposes, >> >> The question is how apt-cdrom gets to know which locales are configured. >> If I read the d-i syslog correctly apt-cdrom is run before 'locales' > > No, locales is part of the base system, and thus installed and > configured before CD-ROM inspection by apt-cdrom. apt-cdrom-setup is > not a step in d-i, it's apt-setup which is one, done after bootstrap,
I take your "No" and re-raise it to "No, yes, but twice". apt-cdrom is run twice, first as I described it. Feel free to check it yourself, the first package installed (aka the first entry in /var/log/apt/history.log) is 'locales' because everything not part of the bootstrap is installed with apt-get which uses as source the cdrom (what else, as mirrors aren't configured yet). After some more packages are installed the installation reaches the apt- setup stage in which a mirror will be chosen - but as its first task it runs apt-cdrom again as you said it - in the locale chosen and installed earlier. This makes this problem actually solvable, at least for installers with that behavior … > and invoking apt-cdrom-setup. apt-cdrom is actually run in the locale > chosen during installation, so it can simply follow that (I wonder why > it doesn't seem to be doing it). As said, apt-cdrom never did and nobody changed it until now - likely also because nobody of the few people who take care of APT use apt-cdrom on a daily basis currently - or at least in my case at all. (which explains a few more needed bugfixes in upcoming 0.9.7.5 …) I wonder how many people actually depend on that behavior (meaning especially other distro-installers and multi-language systems), but ignoring my fear to be once again be flamed to death for an "easy and only logical" behavior change I just changed apt-cdrom to drop all not configured Translation-* files from the copy list. Meaning that on the first run above you will get only Translation-en, while you get Translation-en and Translation-$LANG (and possibly some more friends defined by the various environment variables and configs) in the second. Installers allowing to create multiple users while installing (with different $LANG) need to re-run apt-cdrom in all of these $LANGs to get the optimal behavior. I tried it with a modified multi-arch beta1 cd [0], so at least for debian it seems to work, but I only run it until a mirror is chosen for the lack of network, so more testers are welcomed of course … (You find it only the bzr branch for now, as we haven't made our minds yet how to solve #686346 without too much work and breakage risk - life would be so easy if dpkg and APT^Wmyself would agree just once …) If someone feels the urge to kill me for this change now: Add APT::CDROM::DropTranslation false; to your configuration file/commandline invocation and you are back to your "normal" and beloved previous behavior. Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] some hints at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caaz6_fc0vj-g6b-x_u-dkm-yvjvhu3kbnuyxofen6xeycsb...@mail.gmail.com
