[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#421762: ltsp-client-builder: Fail to set correct default X keyboard layout

[vagrant at freegeek.org]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:08:51AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> vagrant at freegeek.org writes:
> > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:40:25PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> >> [Oliver Grawert]
> >> > as discussed on IRC it would be preferable to set such things from
> >> > an ltsp-build-client plugin, so eople not installing through d-i get
> >> > the benefit as well. 
...snip...
> >> I agree.  The problem is that I am unable to find the name of the
> >> keymap used in /etc/ on a Debian/Etch installation, so there is no
> >> value to copy into the ltsp chroot. :(
  
> > ok, no code yet, but i think the way to do this is have the .udeb
> > preseed the value into /target debconf database, and then a plugin grabs
> > this value and seeds the created LTSP chroot environment. that way it
> > will work if used with or without the .udeb, and we don't have to
> > duplicate code.
 
> Petter has done it for Debian-EDU, would be good to that a look at his fix.

no, petter's code does everything in the .udeb, which means it will
still be broken if ltsp-build-client is run after installation.

i haven't taken the time to write down my idea, but it shouldn't be too
difficult to implement. though i'll need others to test it.

live well,
  vagrant