Package: tzsetup Version: 1:0.23 Severity: normal
Hi all, I noticed that somewhere between lenny beta 2 and the latest daily builds there's a difference in how you effectivily preseed the timezone. In lenny beta 2, these lines were sufficient to set the timezone to Europe/Amsterdam while having the locale set to en_US: d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US d-i time/zone string Europe/Amsterdam Unlike the latest D-I manual states, this doesn't work in the latest daily builds anymore. The timezone will be forced to US/Eastern. To figure this out, I ran a manual (expert) installation and noticed that the timezone choices are based on the locale settings. I tried to add: d-i localechooser/shortlist select other d-i localechooser/continentlist select Europe d-i localechooser/countrylist/Europe select NL but it didn't work. During a manual (expert) install it's perfectly possible to choose English with country Netherlands, so that it is possible to choose Europe/Amsterdam as timezone. In a discussion on the debian-boot mailinglist, Christian Perrier proposed[1] to try changing the locale from "en_US" to "en_NL". This actually works! Unlike you would expect, but desired however, the locale on the target system will be en_US.UTF-8. So, if this is the way we should preseed the timezone from now on, the D-I manual must be changed to reflect this. Durk [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/10/msg00617.html -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
