default locales

[Ryan Steele]

Thomas Lange wrote:
 On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:20:22 -0500, Ryan Steele <ryans at aweber.com> said:
     >> But even if it does, I really think that FAI should check to 
make sure
     >> the client really has the debconf information we're told we can 
set in
     >> the $FAI_CONFIGDIR/debconf/ directory.  Based on the log entries 
(or
     >> lack thereof), I initially assumed nothing went wrong when 
setting up
     >> the client's locales, which is not the case, and wasted time 
looking
     >> elsewhere for problems.
     > It didn't get what the right solution would be?

I'm not sure what you mean by this.  Isn't $FAI_CONFIGDIR/debconf/ the 
place we're supposed to specify debconf locale info for the client?  Or 
does that assume that the locales exist?

     >If there's a pacakge
     > that needs to be installed before others, we can do this in a hook.
     > If you need to set additional variables, thsi can also be done in a
     > hook with suffix .source.

Yeah, that was my plan to circumvent the problem.



Regards,
Ryan