Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > E.g. in a "distribution" (better to say - custom installation CD) I maintain > here I expect users to use kppp to connect to their ISPs. To make this work > by default, I have to comment out whole contents of /etc/ppp/options during > the last stage of the installation. I don't think that pppd maintainer will > agree that such thing should be provided by debconf. > > Another thing is replacing "#!/bin/sh" by "#!/bin/bash --login" in > /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession (and other dm's Xsession files). This is the only > way I know to make login shell startup files evaluated during X logins. > This issue is known for ages, but it seems that people who make decisions > don't thing it is necessary. So this isn't likely to be fixed with debconf > questions. This is the kind of thing that dropping a script in /usr/lib/base-config can help you with. > The thing I really don't like in debian-cd is the requirement to have a > local mirror. I prefer to use apt-get (+apt-proxy) to fetch packages while > building CD. I have a (currently ugly) script to do so; if anyone is > interested I can (try to) clean it up and make it available. I would much rather see debian-cd work that way. > Seems that feeding correct value to debconf for "locales" package fixes > this. At least for me. > > Currently I install "locales" and "console-cyrrillic" (with all > dependencies) very early - I modified debootstrap to do so. Default values > to debconf database also are written by modified debootstrap. So I have > russian properly set up already when base-config runs. base-config 1.41 and above modify /etc/locale.gen and run locale-gen to set up the installation locale before it goes interactive. If this doesn't work I would appreciate bug reports and patches in this area. -- see shy jo
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