Re: not i18ned part in b-f 2.2.15
Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp> writes:
> In <[🔎] 20000704225914.3986a4a7.yosshy@debian.or.jp>,
> at "Tue, 4 Jul 2000 22:59:14 +0900",
> with "not i18ned part in b-f 2.2.15",
> Akira YOSHIYAMA <yosshy@debian.or.jp> writes:
>
> > I found that installed fresh base system (dbootstrap
> > installed it and just rebooted) isn't i18ned because of
> > dpkg-reconfigure and init.
> > In the current b-f, boot-config and dpkg-reconfigure
> > have basic system configurations of fresh Debian.
> > boot-config and dpkg-reconfigure (debconf)
> > are i18ned, but init runs dpkg-reconfigure directly
> > in the case. So no one set envronment variables
> > (include LANG,LC_MESSAGES, and LC_ALL)
> > normally set by shells and dpkg-reconfigure show us
> > only english messages. Do you wish this?
Ew -- all that work
> The current source for this is in
> scripts/rootdisk/prototype/etc/inittab.install
>
> and this has
>
> 1:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure base-config </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&
>
> So dpkg-reconfigure is invoked by init with this line in /etc/inittab
> on the fresh installed base system.
Hmm... this is probably run by a shell, so, as a hack, couldn't we do
1:2345:respawn:LANG=whatever LC_*=whatever /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure base-config ...
?
> If our bf-utf8 will be completed, we may need to change this
> in order to invoke the bterm and run the dpkg-reconfigure on that.
Now with this issue added on top, I almost wonder if we shouldn't have
init invoke a wrapper which sets the lang stuff, takes care of the
bterm or whatever other console stuff, and then runs dpkg-reconfigure
?
> So if we can use some shell script (or else) here, and write
> the required process (setting appropriate variables, and invoke
> the dpkg-reconfigure and base-config, or so) in it, then it will
> make it easy for us to adopt the bf-utf8 some day.
>
> How do you think ?
Sounds good. Volunteering?
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