Bug#503189: marked as done (tzsetup: Preseeding timezone doesn't work as described)
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regarding tzsetup: Preseeding timezone doesn't work as described
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Package: tzsetup
Version: 1:0.23
Severity: normal
Hi all,
I noticed that somewhere between lenny beta 2 and the latest daily
builds there's a difference in how you effectivily preseed the
timezone.
In lenny beta 2, these lines were sufficient to set the timezone to
Europe/Amsterdam while having the locale set to en_US:
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US
d-i time/zone string Europe/Amsterdam
Unlike the latest D-I manual states, this doesn't work in the latest
daily builds anymore. The timezone will be forced to US/Eastern. To
figure this out, I ran a manual (expert) installation and noticed that
the timezone choices are based on the locale settings.
I tried to add:
d-i localechooser/shortlist select other
d-i localechooser/continentlist select Europe
d-i localechooser/countrylist/Europe select NL
but it didn't work.
During a manual (expert) install it's perfectly possible to choose
English with country Netherlands, so that it is possible to choose
Europe/Amsterdam as timezone.
In a discussion on the debian-boot mailinglist, Christian Perrier
proposed[1] to try changing the locale from "en_US" to "en_NL". This
actually works! Unlike you would expect, but desired however, the
locale on the target system will be en_US.UTF-8.
So, if this is the way we should preseed the timezone from now on, the
D-I manual must be changed to reflect this.
Durk
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/10/msg00617.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: tzsetup
Source-Version: 1:0.24
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
tzsetup, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
tzsetup-udeb_0.24_all.udeb
to pool/main/t/tzsetup/tzsetup-udeb_0.24_all.udeb
tzsetup_0.24.dsc
to pool/main/t/tzsetup/tzsetup_0.24.dsc
tzsetup_0.24.tar.gz
to pool/main/t/tzsetup/tzsetup_0.24.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 503189@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> (supplier of updated tzsetup package)
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Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:11:16 +0200
Source: tzsetup
Binary: tzsetup-udeb
Architecture: source all
Version: 1:0.24
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>
Description:
tzsetup-udeb - choose time zone (udeb)
Closes: 503189
Changes:
tzsetup (1:0.24) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Accept any preseeded time zone if the seen flag is set. This is needed to
undo a change in behavior introduced with cdebconf (0.132) which results
in invalid defaults for current choices list being rejected.
Closes: #503189.
* Check that (preseeded) time zone is valid before setting it for the target
system.
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