On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 05:22:07PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 24 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > Yes, I understand. But as tzdata is installed by debootstrap, there's no
> > way to preseed it before installation.
>
> Preseeding during debootstrap is probably never going to happen th
On Monday 24 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote:
> Yes, I understand. But as tzdata is installed by debootstrap, there's no
> way to preseed it before installation.
Right.
Preseeding during debootstrap is probably never going to happen though as
its a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem: you need to
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Op 22-12-2007 om 23:23 schreef Frans Pop:
> On Saturday 22 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > debconf-preconfigure time/zone Europe/Berlin
> > apt-get install tzdata
>
> Geert's suggestions about _how_ to set the values are correct, but at the
> same time you are
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:38:10AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 24 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > But dpkg-reconfigure still asks, even though I explicitly set them as
> > "seen".
>
> That is correct. dpkg-reconfigure ignores the seen flag as otherwise it
> would be completely imposs
On Monday 24 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote:
> But dpkg-reconfigure still asks, even though I explicitly set them as
> "seen".
That is correct. dpkg-reconfigure ignores the seen flag as otherwise it
would be completely impossible to _ever_ reconfigure packages that were
installed with preseedin
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 01:58:39AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 23 December 2007, Joey Hess wrote:
> > tzdata 2007b-1 (in etch) does not use debconf.
Thanks for the clarification, Joey!
> Right. Etch still used tzconfig to set the timezone. I forgot about that.
>
> That means Josef will p
On Sunday 23 December 2007, Joey Hess wrote:
> tzdata 2007b-1 (in etch) does not use debconf.
Right. Etch still used tzconfig to set the timezone. I forgot about that.
That means Josef will probably just have to set the timezone the way we did
it in D-I, which can be seen in this script:
http://
tzdata 2007b-1 (in etch) does not use debconf.
(BTW, several people in this thread have seemed to not be aware that
debconf-set-selections automatically sets the seen flag of preseeded
values.)
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On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:23:29PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
Thanks for your help, Frans!
> On Saturday 22 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > debconf-preconfigure time/zone Europe/Berlin
> > apt-get install tzdata
>
> Geert's suggestions about _how_ to set the values are correct, but at the
On Saturday 22 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote:
> debconf-preconfigure time/zone Europe/Berlin
> apt-get install tzdata
Geert's suggestions about _how_ to set the values are correct, but at the
same time you are trying to set the _wrong_ values.
The time/zone template is a debian-installer t
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 06:09:28PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> Op 22-12-2007 om 15:55 schreef Josef Wolf:
>
> You _might_ be missing setting the seen flag.
> So in the next attempt:
>
> echo 'tzdata time/zone string Europe/Berlin
> tzdata time/zone seen true' | \
> sudo chroot etch/target debco
Op 22-12-2007 om 15:55 schreef Josef Wolf:
> Thanks for the hint, Geert!
:-)
> From debconf-set-selections manpage I deduce that the correct format
> would be
>
> tzdata time/zone string Europe/Berlin
>
> This seems to be correct, since debconf-get-selections returns this
> value. But it do
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 01:26:40PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> Op 22-12-2007 om 12:19 schreef Josef Wolf:
> > That was almost straight-forward so far. But now I'm somewhat stuck.
> > I'd like to preconfigure debconf. Something like
> >
> > debconf-preconfigure time/zone Europe/Berlin
> >
Op 22-12-2007 om 12:19 schreef Josef Wolf:
> Hello.
>
> sudo chroot etch/target apt-get update
> sudo chroot etch/target apt-get dist-upgrade -y
>
> That was almost straight-forward so far. But now I'm somewhat stuck.
> I'd like to preconfigure debconf. Something like
>
> debconf-p
Hello.
I hope I am in the correct mailing list here. If I'm not, please somebody
point me to the correct one.
I am trying to create an live-CD via debootstrap. Here is what I have done
so far:
# Download packages to temp directory, so we don't need to download them
# again if we want to st
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