On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Tong Sun <suntong001@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Michael Prokop <bts@bts.grml.org> wrote:
>
>>> It is not a big deal for other configurations, but generating locales
>>> takes a lot of time on my PC.
>>
>> Hm interesting. Which "additional packages" do you have?
>> Is the issue still unresolved from your side?
>
> I think I might have found the cause -- my problem:
>
> I have been reusing an old debootstrap local cache, in which 'locales' is old:
>
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>  dhcp3-client dhcp3-common libpci3 locales pciutils perl-base
>
> I think this is the reason, but I'll double check....

well, on 2nd thought, I now think I"ve confirmed that the step to
(re)generates locale in "stage reconfigure" is not necessary. Because,

Regenerating locales requires the 'locales' package to be installed
beforehand, normally in the additional packages list. But when
installing the 'locales' package, Debian generates the locales, as I
initially reported, and confirmed right now.