Re: Bug#619711: console-setup: breaks copying keymap to initramfs

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

severity 619711 important
stop

default is KEYMAP=n.

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Anton Zinoviev wrote:

> I had no idea that initramfs-tools does this.  I think this was wrong 
> even with old version of console-setup because in some situations 
> cached.kmap.gz will not correspond to the actual configuration and in 
> some versions of the package it was even possible for this file not to 
> exist.

people using cryptsetup asked for it in order to be able to pass
their luks passphrase.
  
> 
> It will be difficult for initramfs-tools to tell what is the correct 
> name of the cached keymap.  Symlinking the new name to the old is 
> unreliable so I'd prefer not to implement this.  Because of this in 
> version 1.72 of console-setup a new option of setupcon is implemented 
> --save-keyboard.  Suppose you want to save the keymap in 
> /tmp/initrd/etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz.  Then simply use the 
> following command:
> 
> setupcon --save-keyboard /tmp/initrd/etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz
> 
> Alternatively, instead of --save-keyboard you can use --setup-dir.  I 
> will explain this second option in a separate bug report.  Both new 
> options of setupcon are for now undocumented because I want to know 
> first that they will be useful.

I'd prerfer that console-setup would ship an proper initramfs hook
telling what to add to initramfs, will followup on the other report
on that soonest.

thanks for your input.

-- 
maks