On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:06:49PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > retitle 510908 tzdata doesn't respect debconf preseeding > tag 510908 patch > thanks > > On 05/16/2011 04:49 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > tzdata should use data from debconf if neither /etc/localtime nor > > /etc/timezone, otherwise it should default to the value read from these > > files. > > exactely; the problem here is that tzdata in config, if neither > /etc/timezone nor /etc/localtime is present, and debconf values are > stored in the db, then tzdata does *not* generate /etc/timezone from the > values of debconf. > > attached is a patch that fixed that. > > Regards, > Daniel > > -- > Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern > Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net > Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/
> From 3bcceafec00aa0a6485b1a80f79a57602fa01b49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baum...@progress-linux.org> > Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:35:13 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] Correcting debconf config script to respect preseeding of > tzdata (Closes: #510908). > > --- > debian/config | 13 ++++++++----- > 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/debian/config b/debian/config > index 4a00f9c..a910e0f 100644 > --- a/debian/config > +++ b/debian/config > @@ -356,11 +356,14 @@ if [ -e /etc/timezone ] && [ -e /etc/localtime ] ; then > fi > # The timezone has never been configured or is falsely configured > elif ! [ -e /etc/localtime ] || [ -n "$DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE" ] ; then > - if [ -z "$AREA" ] || [ -z "$ZONE" ] ; then > - AREA="Etc" > - ZONE="UTC" > - echo "Etc/UTC" > /etc/timezone > - fi Why removing the if there? It means that if the timezone is half-configured (ie /etc/localtime doesn't exist, but a timezone has been determined from /etc/timezone), the debconf data is used instead. It seems wrong, in that case the data from /etc/timezone should be used. > + AREA="Etc" > + ZONE="UTC" > + > + db_get tzdata/Areas && AREA="$RET" > + db_get tzdata/Zones/$AREA && ZONE="$RET" > + > + echo "$AREA/$ZONE" > /etc/timezone > + > db_fset tzdata/Areas seen false > db_fset tzdata/Zones/$AREA seen false > # The user want to handle the timezone by him/herself -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org