Re: not asking for a language

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@technion.ac.il>]

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On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:00:21 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:

> Quoting Tzafrir Cohen (tzafrir@technion.ac.il):
> > Hi
> > 
> > I want to build a custom installer CD that will contain some extra
> > packages and will install them. The installer should ask the least
> > possible questions. Specifically I would like to 
> > 
> > 1. avoid asking about the language, and 
> > 2. ask about country later in the installation , just before asking 
> >    about the timezone.
> > 
> > Is it possible to do (1) without changing existing file on the initrd
> > (or adding a script that will change them at runtime)?
> 
> http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianInstallerPreseed
> 
> 1) needs editing the syslinux.cfg

I tried adding 

  debconf/priority=critical languagechooser/language-name=English

to the defaults in isolinux/isolinux.cfg . I still got the question.
So I figured I'd try to edit /usr/bin/languagechooser in the initrd.
Basically: check first if the language is defined before asking for a 
language. This works. Only now I get a question about a country, and I 
have no idea how to avoid it.

Below is the patch with my exact modification.

--- debian-installer/packages/languagechooser/languagechooser   2004-09-01 10:39:47.000000000 +0300
+++ rd_copy/usr/bin/languagechooser     2004-09-07 16:50:11.000000000 +0300
@@ -26,26 +26,31 @@
   db_set debconf/language C
 fi
 
-db_input critical "languagechooser/language-name" || [ $? -eq 30 ]
-if db_go; then
-    db_get "languagechooser/language-name"
-    if test "$RET" ; then
-       LANGNAME="$RET"
-       . languagemap
-       db_set "$languagecode" "$LANGUAGELIST"
-       db_set "$localecode"   "$LOCALE"
-       db_set "$fallbacklocalecode"   "$FALLBACKLOCALE"
-       # For "remembering" which locale is set by languagechooser
-       db_set "$languagechooserlocalecode"   "$LOCALE"
-       db_set "$countrycode"  "$COUNTRY"
-       db_set "$consoledisplay"  "$CONSOLE"
+db_get "languagechooser/language-name"
+if test "$RET" ; then
+    LANGNAME="$RET"
+else
+    db_input critical "languagechooser/language-name" || [ $? -eq 30 ]
+    if db_go; then
+        db_get "languagechooser/language-name"
+        if test "$RET" ; then
+        LANGNAME="$RET"
+        fi
     else
-       # Error, not sure how to handle it
-       :
+        # Error, not sure how to handle it
+        :
     fi
-else
-    # Error, not sure how to handle it
-    :
+fi
+
+if test "$LANGNAME"; then
+    . languagemap
+    db_set "$languagecode" "$LANGUAGELIST"
+    db_set "$localecode"   "$LOCALE"
+    db_set "$fallbacklocalecode"   "$FALLBACKLOCALE"
+    # For "remembering" which locale is set by languagechooser
+    db_set "$languagechooserlocalecode"   "$LOCALE"
+    db_set "$countrycode"  "$COUNTRY"
+    db_set "$consoledisplay"  "$CONSOLE"
 fi
 
 db_get "$languagecode"


> 
> 2) is not possible

How much do I have to change to make it possible? Where?

-- 
Tzafrir