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Regarding: How to preconfigure debconf values?



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Op 22-12-2007 om 23:23 schreef Frans Pop:
> On Saturday 22 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote:
> >   debconf-preconfigure time/zone Europe/Berlin
> >   apt-get install tzdata
> 
> Geert's suggestions about _how_ to set the values are correct, but at the 
> same time you are trying to set the _wrong_ values.
> 
> The time/zone template is a debian-installer template, not a tzdata 
> template. You could have seen this if you'd tried debconf-get-selections on 
> an installed system as explained in the Installation Guide, or by running 
> the command 'debconf-show tzdata'.
> 
> That would have shown you that you need to set _two_ templates:
> tzdata/Areas: Europe
> tzdata/Zones/Europe: Berlin
> 
> Which also better corresponds to the questions that are actually asked when 
> tzdata is installed manually.

Those are the better messages.

Merry Christmas

Cheers
Geert Stappers

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