Okay thanks for your reply. But what is the use case for debconf with locales as illustrated in the http://docs.ansible.com/debconf_module.html
Once a use debconf what's next ? Thanks Alain Le jeudi 11 septembre 2014 19:53:30 UTC+2, Karl Jorgensen a écrit : > > Hi > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 08:40:33AM -0700, Alainkr wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm doing on a on a debian wheezy the vanila : > > > > - debconf: name=locales question='locales/locales_to_be_generated' > value= > > 'en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8' vtype='multiselect' > > - debconf: name=locales > question='locales/default_environment_locale' value > > =fr_FR.UTF-8 vtype='select' > > > > > > yet nothing happens... > > > > /etc/default/locale untouched > > cat ./locale.gen |grep -v "^#" untouched > > That is to be expected. Debconf only changes the configuration > *database* - which is typically used when pre-seeding installation of > packages. > > Once installed, changing this will have little effect: Well-behaved > packages will read the current configuration files (files: not debconf > database), and use those as defaults for the configuration answers. > So I cannot see it being of any use unless you are *installing* > packages. > > To reconfigure packages afterwards, you're better off updating the > relevant configuration files - usually followed by a restart of the > relevant daemon(s). > > It is worth noting that the debconf database must not be confused with > a registry. It is not. The *real* configuration is in the > configuration files : /etc/somewhere. Debconf is just a handy way for > package developers to interact with the user, and not worry about the > user interface. > > > > The strange thing is that on the 1st pass state is "changed" and not > > after. > > Yes - It changed the value in the database on the first run. On > subsequent runs, the database value does not need changing. > > Hope this helps > > -- > Karl E. Jorgensen > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/6ad23085-33dc-49f3-856a-c16bdf023add%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
