preseeding should override the default locales

[Timo Aaltonen]

If I preseed the locales on dapper, I get all the default en_* locales instead.
Only if I run manually locale-gen after the installation do I have the locales
that was intended, but with all the unnecessary ones. /etc/locale.gen looks
fine, but is not used anymore, instead they are defined in
/var/lib/locales/supported.d/*. So, preseeding should override the default and
generate them.

this is what I preseed:

base-config localechooser/supported-locales string en_US, en_US.UTF-8, fi_FI,
fi_FI.UTF-8, fi_FI@euro

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

will not be supported, debconf-code has been removed

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

 status confirmed

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 11:03:39PM -0000, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> will not be supported, debconf-code has been removed

No, as far as I'm concerned this should be supported. It might not be
possible to suppress the additional locales, but everything you put in
localechooser/supported-locales should end up generated.

(If it does work this way now - I haven't checked - then the bug should
become fix-released.)

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Ok, I'll test if it works. I was confused by another bug (#19569) which was rejected, because 'locales' was restructured and thought that it affected this too. I'm with you, that additional locales should be preseedable ;)

if it _doesn't_ work, I'll take a look at localechooser and see if it is trivial to fix.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

/var/log/installer/syslog doesn't have anything that would suggest this works. It's 'post-base-installer' -phase of localechooser that should generate them if localechooser/supported-locales is set.

Does it even reach 'post-base-installer'?

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

I've now tested this again and it seems to work. Maybe it was 0.27ubuntu14 that fixed it.

May 2 11:54:37 base-installer: info: Running /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/05localechooser
May 2 11:54:37 apt-install: Reading package lists...
May 2 11:54:37 apt-install: Building dependency tree...
May 2 11:54:37 apt-install:
May 2 11:54:37 apt-install: locales is already the newest version.
May 2 11:54:37 apt-install: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
May 2 11:54:37 localechooser: Generating locales...
May 2 11:54:37 localechooser: en_US.ISO-8859-1...
May 2 11:54:39 localechooser: done
May 2 11:54:39 localechooser: fi_FI.ISO-8859-1...
May 2 11:54:40 localechooser: done
May 2 11:54:40 localechooser: fi_FI.ISO-8859-15@euro...
May 2 11:54:41 localechooser: done
May 2 11:54:41 localechooser: Generation complete.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

OK; if I fixed it it was unknowingly, but I'll not complain :-)