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Hello, all
On RPi OS Bookworm, console and keyboard initialisation via `setupcon' seem
doubly duplicated (sic), and I am x-posting this to .debian because it
may not be speific to Pi OS:
1. in that systemd services and init.d scripts do the same thing:
/etc/init.d:
console-setup.sh -> /lib/console-setup/console-setup.sh
keyboard-setup.sh -> /lib/console-setup/keyboard-setup.sh
/usr/lib/systemd/system:
console-setup.service -> /lib/console-setup/console-setup.sh
keyboard-setup.service -> /lib/console-setup/keyboard-setup.sh
2. in that /lib/console-setup/console-setup.sh includes both console and
keyboard setup, making keyboard-setup.sh redundant.
This is futher complicated by what I consider two crutches in
/lib/console-setup/keyboard-setup.sh :
1. `setupcon' is invoked if and only if at least one of following
conditions is met:
1. this is /not/ the first time after reboot that the script runs --
a special case misleadingly annotated in the source as skipping an
invocation "after boot," without an explanation why it should be
skipped. Nor does it always /skip/ the invocation, because this is
only one of the two sufficient (OR'ed) conditions .
2. the cache (from a previous invocation with --size) does not exist
or is older than the default configuration in
/etc/default/console-setup.
2. it invokes `setupcon' with the --size option, which causes it to
cache the necessary data files under /etc/console-setup so that they
are available to subsequent invocations before /usr is mounted, e.g.
at an early state of the boot process. In the script, however, --size
seems redunadant, because:
1. if at the time of invocation /usr is not yet mounted, `setupcon'
will take its data from the cache, and --size will have no effect,
(expect, perhaps, rewriting the cache with the same contents).
2. if at the time invocation /usr is already mounted, `setupcon' will
build the data based on its config file,
/etc/default/console-setup ,
and the files in /usr .
Therefore, I think that all this confusing complexity can be reduced to
a very simple invocation that configures both keyboard and console:
if [ -f /etc/default/locale ]; then
# In order to permit auto-detection of the charmap when
# console-setup-mini operates without configuration file.
. /etc/default/locale
export LANG
fi
setupcon
and is invoked by a single systemd service requiring that /usr be
mounted, as the current services already do. Perhaps it is a newbie's
wishful thinking, so what is the reason for current setup? Also, are
able to configure your Bookworms to set the font in your TTYs without
changing the aforementioned shell scripts? I was not, and had to
simplify the process as described above.
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