Hi Steve,
On 30 May 2018 at 00:10, Steve Langasek wrote:
| Ok, I see what's happening here. The reason artful doesn't prompt is
| because /etc/localtime is prepopulated within the image:
|
| $ tar tvf ubuntu-artful-core-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.gz |grep zoneinfo
| lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2018-05-24 13:44 etc/localtime ->
/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC
| $
|
| This is despite the fact that the tzdata package itself is not
| installed.
|
| In bionic, this symlink is not present:
|
| $ tar tvf ubuntu-bionic-core-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.gz |grep zoneinfo
| $
|
| This is in fact a deliberate change in bionic as part of the minimal
| image work; in livecd-rootfs live-build/auto/build:
|
| if [ "${SUBPROJECT:-}" = minimized ] \
| && ! Chroot chroot dpkg -l tzdata 2>&1 |grep -q ^ii; then
| # workaround for tzdata purge not removing these files
| rm -f chroot/etc/localtime chroot/etc/timezone
| fi
|
| The behavior you're seeing in bionic is the *expected* behavior on a
| completely fresh install of the tzdata package. The reason you don't
| see this behavior in prior releases is that it's not truly a fresh
| install, and there is cruft left on the filesystem in the form of
Nice. I was always a big fan of the minimal ubuntu-server installations "way
back when" a decade or so ago, and am glad to see them back.
| /etc/localtime. If /etc/localtime already exists, tzdata has no need to
| prompt instead of using the existing configuration on the system. If it
| doesn't exist, tzdata will ask debconf, which means a prompt by default.
|
| So your setting DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive, if you don't care about
| /etc/localtime and just tzdata to use the default, is the correct fix
| here.
Agreed. I have set that in the corresponding bionic Dockerfile and will use
it going forward.
Cheers, Dirk
| ** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu)
| Status: New => Invalid
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