Re: [PATCH] Set default locale in /etc/locale.conf

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Thu, 20 Oct 2022 12:51:57 +0200
schrieb "Schaffner, Tobias (T CED SES-DE)"
<tobias.schaffner@siemens.com>:

> Debian bookworm introduced systemd-firstboot [1] which asks the user
> to configure some basic settings like hostname, timezone or locale if
> not already configured.
> 
> It asks the user interactively to select a locale on first boot as we
> do not have it set in /etc/locale.conf [2].
> 
> Create the /etc/locale.conf with the default locale setting to allow
> booting bookworm images without user interaction.
> 
> [1]
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-firstboot.html
> [2] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/locale.conf.5.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tobias Schaffner <tobias.schaffner@siemens.com>
> ---
>   meta/classes/image-locales-extension.bbclass | 7 +++----
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes/image-locales-extension.bbclass 
> b/meta/classes/image-locales-extension.bbclass
> index 25af540..964793a 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/image-locales-extension.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/image-locales-extension.bbclass

For all changes in that file we need to switch-case old vs new, not
support only new.

So some sort of if systemd and systemd version >= 0815

Henning

> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ __EOF__
>   locales     locales/locales_to_be_generated    multiselect 
> ${@get_locale_gen(d, ', ')}
>   locales     locales/default_environment_locale select
> ${LOCALE_DEFAULT} __EOF__
> -    cat<<__EOF__ > ${WORKDIR}/locale.default
> +    cat<<__EOF__ > ${WORKDIR}/locale.conf
>   LANG=${LOCALE_DEFAULT}
>   __EOF__
>       cat<<__EOF__ > ${WORKDIR}/locale.nopurge
> @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ __EOF__
>           cat '${WORKDIR}/locale.gen' >> '${ROOTFSDIR}/etc/locale.gen'
>           cat '${WORKDIR}/locale.default' >
> '${ROOTFSDIR}/etc/default/locale' cat '${WORKDIR}/locale.nopurge' >
> '${ROOTFSDIR}/etc/locale.nopurge'
> -        cat '${WORKDIR}/locale.debconf' >
> '${ROOTFSDIR}/tmp/locale.debconf'
> +        cat '${WORKDIR}/locale.conf' > '${ROOTFSDIR}/etc/locale.conf'
> 
>           # Enter image and trigger locales config and localepurge:
>           chroot '${ROOTFSDIR}' /bin/sh <<'EOSH'
> @@ -78,8 +78,7 @@ __EOF__
>               fi
> 
>               echo 'running locale debconf-set-selections'
> -            debconf-set-selections /tmp/locale.debconf
> -            rm -f '/tmp/locale.debconf'
> +            debconf-set-selections /etc/locale.conf
> 
>               echo 'reconfigure locales'
>               dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive locales