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Re: debconf problem



On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:02:29PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:00:16PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I am trying to use debconf to setup some other packages from within a meta 
> > package.
> > 
> > 
> > I have grabbed the desired debconf setting with 
> > 
> > debconf-get-selections | grep -i locale
> > 
> > I get back 
> > 
> > locales locales/locales_to_be_generated multiselect     en_AU ISO-8859-1, 
> > en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_GB ISO-8859-1, en_GB.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_GB.UTF-8 
> > UTF-8, en_US ISO-8859-1, en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> > 
> > 
> > on the destination machine i tried
> > 
> > echo "locales locales/locales_to_be_generated multiselect     en_AU ISO-8859-1, 
> > en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_GB ISO-8859-1, en_GB.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_GB.UTF-8 
> > UTF-8, en_US ISO-8859-1, en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" | 
> > debconf-set-selection
> > 
[snip]

but this doesn't seem to work, when i try dpkg-reconfigure -pcritical locales 
it has the original setting not the ones I have placed into debconf ?

what am i missing 

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