Preconfiguring packages in FAI

[Bruce Edge]

OK, locales is a bad example. Here's the rest of my script (sorry, forgot about that)

        # This is needed because locales` postinst doesn't work properly. 
        # The above followed by: 
        #   dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractice locale
        # should do this, but it doesn't
        echo en_US ISO-8859-1 >> /etc/locale.gen
        /usr/sbin/locale-gen

I'm using this method with etherconf and it works fine.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc SCHAEFER [mailto:alphanet-linux-fai at alphanet.ch]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 10:34 AM
> To: Bruce Edge
> Cc: ole.schistad at zonavi.com; linux-fai at uni-koeln.de
> Subject: RE: Preconfiguring packages in FAI
> 
> 
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Bruce  Edge wrote:
> 
> > Here's what I use for populating the debconf database:
> > 	
> > #!/bin/bash
> > . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
> > # Setup default locale, en_US
> > db_set locales/default_environment_locale "Leave alone"
> > db_set locales/locales_to_be_generated "en_US ISO-8859-1"
> > db_fset locales/locales_to_be_generated  seen true
> > db_go
> 
> Will that work with `locales' ?  There was a thread here 
> about it where it
> was shown that locales doesn't use debconf at first 
> installation at all,
> and the author said that debconf wasn't a registry.
> 
> The logical conclusion was that feeding config.dat was wrong, but that
> making so that when a program asks questions through debconf, correct
> answers are fed is the way to go.
> 
> Someone even implemented it.
> 
>