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localization-config for Debian
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This is an adaptation of locale-config-skolelinux package for integration to
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Debian. It follows the same design, albeit a little extended to cope with future
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releases. So far it can be used in woody and sarge.
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Basically, the user calls one script, update-locale-config with the
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locale entry as parameter (en_US, es_ES, el_GR, etc) and some
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possible options (basically -p is of importance).
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This script calls all other scripts in /usr/lib/localization-config.
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If -p is used, the *.preinst scripts are called, else (default) the
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*.postinst scripts are called. This was to minimize changes in
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Skolelinux infrastructure.
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The preinst scripts are supposed to be run when you need to do
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configuration of a package before it is installed (main use is by
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preseeding debconf values of the package). The postinst scripts are
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there when a package does not support this kind of preconfiguration,
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So when a script is called (preinst/postinst), it first checks the
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version of the package it should configure, in 3 ways:
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a) check the version of the package installed
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b) check the version of the package available in a repository (that
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is, what is the version of the package if you would apt-install it).
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c) if both of the above fail, try getting the version
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from /etc/debian_version. Theoritically if everything goes well this
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method should never be called.
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The version of the package allows us to provide version maps, for
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example woody, sarge, (future?) might have different ways to
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configure a package and we have to be able to provide all of these.
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So each wrapper script (pre/post)inst will call the appropriate
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script that exists in the respective folder (woody, sarge, etc) and
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does the actual configuration.
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To minimize duplication of code, I have provided some subroutines
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in /usr/lib/localization-config/common that you might like to use.
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Feel free to suggest anything that you might think would make the
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-- Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@debian.org>, Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:43:44 +0300
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