[pykickstart] [PATCH] Change keyboard command to accept VConsole keymap and X layouts

Vratislav Podzimek vpodzime at redhat.com
Fri Oct 5 08:13:13 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 16:22 -0500, David Lehman wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 22:50 +0200, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
> > We want to allow user specify which VConsole keymap and X layouts
> > they want to set on the system and during installation. Moreover,
> > we need to store these values during the installation and output
> > them in final kickstart file produced.
> 
> I don't understand this. We need to know which keymap is in use during
> installation when we set a new encryption passphrase. Now that
> everything is a list I have no idea how to know which keymap is actually
> in use. Can you help me out?
What do we need it for? Do we write it somewhere?

The problem these patches try to resolve is that VConsole keymap is
something different from X server layouts. We need to store and write
both VConsole keymap configuration and X layouts configuration. For this
we need to store and process them separately.

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Vratislav Podzimek

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