no need to have locales hard-wired in fact

diff --git a/config.planetlab/develsfa.pkgs b/config.planetlab/develsfa.pkgs
index f78f6dc..3896228 100644 (file)
--- a/config.planetlab/develsfa.pkgs
+++ b/config.planetlab/develsfa.pkgs
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 # a trimmed set of devel packages for sfa only
 # primarily targets debian
-# incuding stuff like mysql here seems to trigger interactive install screens - e.g. prompting for passwords
+# including stuff like mysql here seems to trigger interactive install screens - e.g. prompting for passwords
 # so we're much better off this way - and it's of course much faster
 #
+# keep perl from whining all the time
+package: locales
+#
 # rpm is unfortunately required at a very early stage..
 package: rpm python-rpm
 #

diff --git a/vbuild-init-vserver.sh b/vbuild-init-vserver.sh
index 96b588c..15d03bb 100755 (executable)
--- a/vbuild-init-vserver.sh
+++ b/vbuild-init-vserver.sh
@@ -316,7 +316,6 @@ function devel_or_vtest_tools () {
            ;;
        debootstrap)
            $personality vserver $vserver exec apt-get update
-           $personality vserver $vserver exec apt-get install -y locales
            for package in $packages ; do 
                $personality vserver $vserver exec apt-get install -y $package || \
                    { echo "WARNING - missing package on debian $package - ignored" ; true; }