I've got a patch series for localechooser queued up that makes preseeding localechooser more powerful and flexible. This solves #469680 and #553389. The series also contains a number of cleanups that make the code more readable, especially regarding locale manipulation. The added functionality does mean increased size of the script of course. localechooser now supports two modes for preseeding [1]: 1) Current functionality: preseed only locale Examples: - locale=nl => language=nl, country=NL, locale=nl_NL.UTF-8 - locale=nl_BE => language=nl, country=BE, locale=nl_BE.UTF-8 - locale=en_NL => language=en, country=NL, locale=en_US.UTF-8 2) New functionality: preseed language and/or country + optionally locale Examples: - language=nl => language=nl, country=NL, locale=nl_NL.UTF-8 same as preseeding locale=nl - country=NL => language will be asked; country is preseeded not very usefull, but it can be done - language=en country=NL => language=en, country=NL, locale=en_US.UTF-8 same as preseeding locale=en_NL - language=en country=NL locale=en_GB.UTF-8 => all as preseeded this is currently not possible - language=zh_TW country=HK => language=zh_TW country=HK locale=zh_HK@UTF-8 this is currently not possible: see #469680 And you can even do: language=en country=NL locale=en_GB.UTF-8 \ localechooser/supported-locales=nl_NL.UTF-8,en_US.UTF-8,xx_XX.invalid With that en_GB.UTF-8 will be default, and nl_NL.UTF-8 and en_US.UTF-8 will also be generated. xx_XX.invalid gets filtered out because it's not supported. An image for testing is available at: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/choose-mirror/ This image contains - these localechooser changes - the new choose-mirror - my proposed version for tzsetup So everything I've been working on can be given a try :-) Unless I get comments on these localechooser changes I'll commit them after the weekend. If someone wants to see the patches before then, please let me know. Cheers, FJP [1] Of course this is primarily intended for use with preseed files, but it also works very nicely from the boot prompt (including preseeding without setting the seen flag using "?=". The preseed aliases "language" and "country" are new.
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