From: Michael Gorlick <michael.m.gorlick@gmail.com>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: 42989-done@debbugs.gnu.org, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: bug#42989: Subtle Typo in guix-daemon.service installed by guix-install.sh
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 10:33:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFLY-sK6yEpQ=rc9BfDJm0AxgAAqhVEB60jOHR+SOOUow=LFCg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7xszbbg.fsf@gmail.com>
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Agreed. It arose from a misunderstanding of guix and rightly deserves to be
ignored and deep sixed.
On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 7:18 PM Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:22:13PM -0700, Michael Gorlick wrote:
> >> You are right and the confusion is mine. The reason the error messages
> >> disappeared is that thanks to a "guix pull", a "guix upgrade", and a
> "guix
> >> install glibc-utf8-locales" on user "root" I now have the latest
> version of
> >> the utf8-locales, 2.31, installed at
> >> */var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/lib/locale.*
> >>
> >> Sorry for the bother. However, judging by prior discussions not everyone
> >> understands that the build daemons rely in this way on the guix-profile
> of
> >> the root. It would help if the documentation pointed out this common
> >> misunderstanding and explicitly advised users on foreign distributions
> to
> >> pull and upgrade the root profile regularly.
> >
> > Yeah, locales are one of the bigger user experience problem with Guix :/
> > The warnings are a definite improvement over how it used to be, when
> > glibc would simply ABORT any program that was using the wrong version of
> > locales.
> >
> > We are still searching for a solid solution to the problem, as we've
> > been tweaking the documentation for years now, but people still report
> > the warnings all the time.
>
> I think the situation has improved a lot in recent years. I'll close
> this since the title is misguided, and since it's very old :-).
>
> Thank you,
>
> Maxim
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-22 16:46 bug#42989: Subtle Typo in guix-daemon.service installed by guix-install.sh Michael Gorlick
2020-08-22 17:06 ` Leo Famulari
[not found] ` <CAFLY-s+qQ-p9shgi+rRRoFUxj6c=0=rewVW9+g0cKVJxLZq3dg@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <7fdbeb59-df88-49ff-9eb0-f9799c54db7f@www.fastmail.com>
2020-08-22 19:22 ` Michael Gorlick
2020-08-22 21:39 ` Leo Famulari
2022-07-14 2:18 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-07-14 17:33 ` Michael Gorlick [this message]
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