preseeding mechanism in polystrap

[Marcus Osdoba <marcus.osdoba@googlemail.com>]

Hi Josch,
I tried to reuse the preseeding to setup the timezone for the target 
rootfs. But the package configure itself every time as Etc/UTC (which is 
obviously the package default).

Right after downloading and extracting the packages, the preseed.txt is 
set via debconf-set-selections (test with -c[heck] before is positive).

The debconfseed.txt looks like yours [1]. But running dpkg --configure 
-a sets the package to UTC[2] and debconf-show tzdata does not know the 
Area Europe anymore[3].

Does polystrap show some output like:
Setting up tzdata (2011d-0squeeze1) ...
Current default time zone: 'Europe/Berlin'
?

Thanks and kind regards,
Marcus

[2]
Setting up tzdata (2011d-0squeeze1) ...

Current default time zone: 'Etc/UTC'
Local time is now:      Thu Jun 30 20:35:54 UTC 2011.
Universal Time is now:  Thu Jun 30 20:35:54 UTC 2011.
Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it.


[3]
me@debian-virtual:~/embedded/multistrap$ sudo chroot build/targetfs/
root@debian-virtual:/# debconf-show tzdata
  tzdata/Zones/Australia:
  tzdata/Zones/US:
  tzdata/Zones/Asia:
* tzdata/Zones/Etc: UTC
  tzdata/Zones/SystemV:
  tzdata/Zones/Africa:
  tzdata/Zones/America:
  tzdata/Zones/Arctic:
  tzdata/Zones/Pacific:
* tzdata/Areas: Etc
  tzdata/Zones/Antarctica:
  tzdata/Zones/Atlantic:
* tzdata/Zones/Europe:  Berlin
  tzdata/Zones/Indian:
[1]
root@debian-virtual:/# more /tmp/debconfseed.txt
 locales locales/locales_to_be_generated  multiselect     en_US.UTF-8 
UTF-8
 locales locales/default_environment_locale     select  en_US.UTF-8
 tzdata  tzdata/Areas     select  Europe
 tzdata  tzdata/Zones/Europe    select  Berlin