Re: reconfiguring locales in base-config?

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Since we allready have localized BFs, I imagine the following:
> (localized) debootstrap on BFs ask the user something like:
> "Would you like to set the current language as the default system
> language?"
> If YES, debootstrap puts the corresponding parts into /etc/locale.gen,
> $LANG into /etc/environment and calls locale-gen in a chroot.
> If NO, debootstrap asks "Would you like to reconfigure language and
> localisation settings later?"
> If YES, debootstrap writes a special flag into /etc/locale.gen (or
> wherever). Later, baseconfig would check this mark and force locales
> reconfiguration if needed.

That sounds reasonable, for the language-chooser-enabled boot floppies.
Would someone like to hack that into dbootstrap?

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