Re: bookworm/sid: new interactive system locale setting on first boot

["Schaffner, Tobias" <tobias.schaffner@siemens.com>]

On 20.10.22 12:54, Schild, Henning (T CED SES-DE) wrote:

> I think for the time being we want to just disable it via the cmdline.
> It is unexpected and breaks non-interactive booting.
> 
> But looking at what that thing can do ... it seems valuable to keep it
> in mind. It in fact does 3 key things which we kind of want to do in
> any isar image as well. (and it can do more we also might want)
> - hostname (part of almost every layer i know)
> - rootpw (part of isar core)
> - locales (part of isar core)
> 
> Maybe we can eventually use it for these purposes and drop our
> implementations.
> 
> But back to the question on locale.conf. Generating that might also be
> an option. Here i would suggest to see where it comes from in a debian
> installed with the debian installer, if it is generated together with
> locale.gen and friends ... yes we likely want to generate it in the
> extension and solve the problem that way. Also have a look at the
> reconfigure scripts that we cater for, and how they changed with that
> more recent systemd.
> 
> Henning

I would suggest to provide the locale.conf even if we disable systemd-firstboot 
via the command line. Other packages might rely on a the new file as firstboot 
ensures that it will be present on bookworm.