Re: [locales] Solving the "debconf is not a registry" issue

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 11:13:59PM +0200, I wrote:
[...]
> Sure, here is an updated patch.
[...]

Oops I forgot to 'cvs update' first, here is a new postinst with
the latest change.

Denis

#! /bin/sh
set -e

LG="/etc/locale.gen"
EE="/etc/environment"

if [ "$1" = configure ]; then

    . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
    db_version 2.0

    db_get locales/locales_to_be_generated && SELECTED_LOCALES=$RET
    db_get locales/default_environment_locale && SELECTED="$RET"

    if [ -n "$SELECTED_LOCALES" ]; then
        if [ -e $LG ]; then
            #   Comment previous defined locales
            sed -e 's/^[a-zA-Z]/#&/' $LG > $LG.tmp || true
            mv -f $LG.tmp $LG
        else
            cat > $LG << EOF
# This file lists locales that you wish to have built. You can find a list
# of valid supported locales at /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED. Other
# combinations are possible, but may not be well tested. If you change
# this file, you need to rerun locale-gen.
#

EOF
        fi
        list=`echo $SELECTED_LOCALES | sed -e 's/, /,/g'`
        save_IFS=$IFS
        IFS=,
        for locale in $list; do
            if grep -q "^#$locale *\$" $LG; then
                #   Uncomment previous defined locales
                sed -e "s,#$locale *\$,$locale," $LG > $LG.tmp || true
                mv -f $LG.tmp $LG
            else
                #   Add a newline in case last line does not have one
                echo >> $LG
                #   Consecutive blank lines are replaced by a single line
                cat -s $LG > $LG.tmp
                mv -f $LG.tmp $LG
                #   Add a new locale
                echo $locale >> $LG
            fi
        done
        IFS=$save_IFS
    else
        if [ -e $LG ]; then
            sed -e 's/^[a-zA-Z]/#&/' $LG > $LG.tmp || true
            mv -f $LG.tmp $LG
        fi
    fi
    # Update requested locales.
    /usr/sbin/locale-gen

    # Set default LANG environment variable
    if [ -e $EE ]; then
        sed -e '/^ *LANG=/d' $EE > $EE.tmp || true
    else
        :> $EE.tmp
    fi
    if [ -n "$SELECTED" ] && [ "$SELECTED" != "None" ]; then
        #   Add a newline in case last line does not have one
        echo >> $EE.tmp
        echo "LANG=$SELECTED" >> $EE.tmp
        #   Consecutive blank lines are replaced by a single line
        cat -s $EE.tmp > $EE
    fi
    rm -f $EE.tmp
fi

# We remove a relic of the past /usr/doc/<package> symlinks.
# This script should keep at least until sarge release.
package=`basename $0 .postinst`
if [ -L "/usr/doc/$package" ]; then
    rm -f "/usr/doc/$package"
fi