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Re: How to preconfigure debconf values?



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.

And yes, you do also need to set the seen flag.

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