On Sunday 04 May 2008, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > I am working on Canadian English defaults system-wide for systems I put > out and will be doing up packages for myspell dictionaries and such. > I was wondering if I need to do something in d-i to get them picked up > automatically, or if that is even possible. I know that the default is > en-US for these packages; I was hoping that I could have things set so > that if en_CA is picked during install that canadian english > dictionaries are installed instead of american english ones (also for > aspell, the default world lists and all that kind of stuff that is > locale dependent). I think it should be possible to have a separate language task in tasksel for en_CA that includes the correct dictionaries. After all, there already are separate "British English" tasks as you can see if you fire up aptitude and select Tasks/End-user/Localization. I suggest you check out the source of tasksel and take a look around. Creating new tasks based on existing examples should not be too hard. When you have them, file a wishlist bug against tasksel. When the dictionaries are installed when dictionaries are first configured, the maintainer scripts in dictionaries-common should automatically select the correct ones as defaults. Note that the en_CA dictionaries will be installed "in addition to" the default ones and not "instead of". Cheers, FJP
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