FAI provide a set of exemple script. One of them ( scripts/FAIBASE/10-misc) try to set the keyboard layout according to the FAI variable KEYMAP found in .var files. It does so by doing :
$ROOTCMD bash -c "echo 'console-data console-data/keymap/full select $KEYMAP' | debconf-set-selections"
However Ubuntu doesn't use console-data by default anymore but console-setup instead.
I went around the problem by adding the content of :
$debconf-get-selections |grep console-setup
to my debconf/FAIBASE file.
Here is what I added :
console-setup console-setup/variant select Belgium
console-setup console-setup/charmap select UTF-8
console-setup console-setup/layoutcode string be
console-setup console-setup/compose select Right Logo key
console-setup console-setup/optionscode string lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rwin
console-setup console-setup/layout select Belgium
console-setup console-setup/codesetcode string Uni1
console-setup console-setup/modelcode string pc105
console-setup console-setup/altgr select Right Alt
console-setup console-setup/model select Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
console-setup console-setup/codeset select . Combined - Latin; Slavic Cyril
Note : I'm using the packages from the FAI PPA
I see. This means that this functionality is not working as intended because of the switch.
Your proposal is strange. I think it would be more straight forward to just add these preseeding to the debconf/ directory in the configuration space, instead of manually fiddling with debconf-
The question remains what to do now. Ideally, we would have some way to 'detect' what language/keyboard environment is desired and set it via a script. If someone can come up with a patch for this, please attach the patch here.