Re: Keymap problems in D-I (was: Re: Bugs in the latest Debian Sid installer)

[Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>]

Am Sonntag 23 August 2009 17:12:34 schrieb Christian Perrier:
> Quoting Frans Pop (elendil@planet.nl):
> > On Sunday 23 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > Actually, when using a netinst image, console-setup is *not* installed
> > > on the target system, which explains why the keymap is not
> > > configured. I think that Frans will verey quickly suggest the right
> > > explanation
> >
> > Isn't that obvious? Fixed in debian-cd.
>
> I guess this is because the "apt-install console-setup" is in
> kbd-chooser's post-base-installer, at a moment where APT sources are
> not available (or configured).
>
> Maybe we could move the installation of console-setup to a
> finish-install script as there is nothing to do but install
> console-setup.
>
> However, I'm unsure whether an "apt-install" of a package that's not
> on the netinst CD would work at the finish-install step.
>
> BTW; it seems that kbd-config post-base-installer script needs some
> cleaning:
>
> !/bin/sh
>
> . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
>
> # Silently exit if we're using a serial console
> db_get debian-installer/serial-console
> if [ "$RET" != false ]; then
>         exit 0
> fi
>
> apt-install console-setup || true
> exit 0 # console-setup will handle the rest of it
>
> .../... some other stuff that's never executed.