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

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* Anton Zinoviev 

| 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.

Yay, excellent.  I've poked and worked a bit on this and it generally
seems to work quite well.

It requires a new console-tools-udeb, but that's not very hard (I have
one for Ubuntu already).  Among the other problems I encountered is
that console-setup is never run when using d-i: setupcon tries to
readlink /proc/self/fd/2 to decide whether it's on the console or not.
To work around this, I made console-setup's postinst call setupcon <
/dev/tty > /dev/tty 2>/dev/tty and added /dev/tty to the «ok» list in
the readlink

A diff says more than a thousand words, so:

: 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 >

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