[Pkg-kbd-devel] Re: Ubuntu keyboard/installer plans

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* Anton Zinoviev 

| Hi Colin and the others!
| 
| On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 02:36:02PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
| > 
| > It is however possible to create for all XkbOptions a small keymap.
| > Then the concatenation of the basic keymap with the keymaps for all
| > XkbOptions produces the necessary keymap.  The package
| > console-cyrillic demonstrates this approach and it is easy to use this
| > approach in the installer.  As a proof of the concept I will make a
| > simple script that does this.
| 
| I've just uploaded a new version of console-setup that contains
| experimental udebs that demonstrate how console-setup can be used in
| the installer.  The size of all precompiled keyboards was surprisingly
| small: only 64k (compressed) for all keyboard layouts, variants and
| supported options.

This works quite well, I've found out.  It needs a few small fixes to
actually set the keymap properly when run inside d-i:

: tfheen at thosu /tmp/console-setup > svn diff
Index: setupcon
===================================================================
--- setupcon    (revisjon 201)
+++ setupcon    (arbeidskopi)
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
 fi

 case `readlink /proc/self/fd/2` in
-    /dev/tty[0-9]*|/dev/vc/[0-9]*|/dev/console)
+    /dev/tty[0-9]*|/dev/tty|/dev/vc/[0-9]*|/dev/console)
        ;;
     *)
        if [ "$VERBOSE_OUTPUT" = yes ]; then
Index: debian/console-setup.postinst
===================================================================
--- debian/console-setup.postinst       (revisjon 201)
+++ debian/console-setup.postinst       (arbeidskopi)
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@

 # In d-i debhelper doesn't use /etc/init.d scripts :-)
 if [ -f /usr/share/console-setup-mini/console-setup.config ]; then
-    setupcon
+    setupcon < /dev/tty > /dev/tty 2>/dev/tty
 fi

 #DEBHELPER#
: tfheen at thosu /tmp/console-setup >

Apart from this, it needs a console-setup-udeb containing kbd_mode,
consolechars and loadkeys, but that's trivial to make.

I'd appreciate if you applied the abovementioned diff as I can't due
to insufficient SVN access.

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