Error in Packaging Guide

Jordan Mantha mantha at chem.unr.edu
Fri Jun 16 22:34:05 UTC 2006


Daniel T. Chen wrote:
> rob wrote:
>>> Just a quick one, I've picked up an error in the packaging guide, in the 
>>> Chroot appendix. The method listed for installing and setting up locales for 
>>> the chroot results in it just defaulting to C, throwing up lots of warnings 
>>> whist using your chroot. To fix this, one needs to install a language pack 
>>> also. 
> 
> Nice catch.

Yes, I realized this problem a little too late for dapper unfortunately.

>>> I've also removed the redundant dpkg-reconfigure locales, as this isn't needed 
>>> once you install a language pack, its done for you post install anyway.
> 
> Right. Each of the language-pack-$locale-base packages depends on
> locales anyway, so explicitly installing locales via $apt can be
> omitted, too.

I need to have another look at this section and the section about
setting up sudo. Infinity seemed to think it was all wrong so I want to
just nail this down with the devs to make sure.

-Jordan Mantha




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