From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>
Cc: 36076@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 09:57:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871s07rvqw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1906060036470.5164@marsh.hcoop.net> (Jack Hill's message of "Thu, 6 Jun 2019 00:46:49 -0400 (EDT)")
Hi Jack,
Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> skribis:
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> I honestly don’t see how it could be clearer:
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Locales
>>
>> Could you propose a patch to this section?
>
> I think what is missing is a statement that the systemd unit for
> guix-daemon on foreign distos runs guix-daemon with a locale that is
> only provided in glibc-utf8-locales.
>
> I clairification could be something like, "The provided unit for
> running guix-daemon on a foreign distribution configures the daemon to
> run with a local that is only provided in
> glibc-utf8-locales. Therefore, glibc-utf8-locacles should be installed
> in root's profile, or the unit should be configured to use a locale of
> your choosing."
‘glibc-utf8-locales’ is embedded in the ‘guix’ package (the binary
tarball), such that even if you don’t install it, “en_US.utf8” is
available to ‘guix substitute’ & co.
However, IIUC, the problem is with the Bash used by
libexec/guix/substitute, is that right?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-06 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-03 18:39 bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros Jack Hill
2019-06-05 13:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-06 4:46 ` Jack Hill
2019-06-06 7:57 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-06-05 17:28 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-06-06 4:32 ` Jack Hill
2019-06-06 9:03 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-06-06 15:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-06 16:56 ` Jack Hill
2019-06-07 21:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-07 22:59 ` Jack Hill
2019-06-11 14:49 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-06-12 14:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
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