[Pkg-kbd-devel] Switching d-i to kbd for squeeze?

[Otavio Salvador]

Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 01:59:59PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> writes:
>> > If there's consensus, I can commit the relevant fixes.
>> 
>> It would be great if you could send the patches to mailing list to
>> people have a look on them before pushing but the concept is logical
>> and has really good basis to work.
>
> Index: localechooser/finish-install
> ===================================================================
> --- localechooser/finish-install	(revision 57427)
> +++ localechooser/finish-install	(working copy)
> @@ -40,28 +40,8 @@
>  case "$consoletype" in
>      kbd)
>  	consolefont=$(echo $RET | sed -e 's/^kbd=//')
> -	if apt-install console-tools; then
> -		ctconfig=/target/etc/console-tools/config
> -		acm=$(echo $consolefont | sed -e 's/.*(//' -e 's/).*//')
> -		[ "$acm" = utf8 ] && acm=
> -		# A few workarounds of console-tools limitations below
> -		# APP_CHARSET_MAP and console fonts are not set
> -		# for all consoles. These workarounds should probably
> -		# be removed when we switch to kbd
> -		# FIXME: why 1-6 for APP_CHARSET_MAP but 2-6 for SCREEN_FONT?
> -		if [ -n "$acm" ]; then
> -			echo "APP_CHARSET_MAP=$acm" >>$ctconfig
> -			for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do
> -				echo "APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc$i=$acm" >>$ctconfig
> -			done
> -		fi
> +	if apt-install kbd; then
>  		consolefont=$(echo $consolefont | sed -e 's/(.*//')
> -		if [ -n "$consolefont" ]; then
> -			echo "SCREEN_FONT=$consolefont" >>$ctconfig
> -			for i in 2 3 4 5 6; do
> -				echo "SCREEN_FONT_vc$i=$consolefont" >>$ctconfig
> -			done
> -		fi
>  		if echo "$consolefont" | grep -q "Terminus"; then
>  			apt-install console-terminus || true
>  		fi
> Index: kbd-chooser/debian/post-base-installer
> ===================================================================
> --- kbd-chooser/debian/post-base-installer	(revision 57427)
> +++ kbd-chooser/debian/post-base-installer	(working copy)
> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
>  echo "console-data console-data/keymap/policy select Don't touch keymap" | \
>  	LANG=C chroot /target debconf-set-selections
>  
> -apt-install console-tools console-data console-common || true
> +apt-install kbd console-data console-common || true
>  
>  db_get debian-installer/keymap
>  KEYMAP=$RET

Please go ahead! It's very trivial :P heh!

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