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From: Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>
To: 36076@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 14:39:55 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1906031430060.5164@marsh.hcoop.net> (raw)

Hi Guix,

While setting up Guix on a foreign distribution (CentOS 7), I elected to 
use the full glibc-locales while following section 2.6.1 of the manual for 
application setup. I installed the glibc-locales package in both my user's 
profile and root's so that the locales would be available to guix-daemon.

However, I was surprised that even though I had the full set of locales 
available guix-daemon couldn't find the locale it was looking for. This is 
because the default systemd unit for guix-daemon configures it to use the 
en_US.utf8 locale which is provided by glibc-utf8-locales (en_US.UTF-8 is 
in glibc-locales).

I think it would be good to clarify in the manual which locale package is 
needed when using the default daemon configuration on systemd foreign 
distros.

I also talked about my experience on help-guix: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2019-06/msg00024.html

Best,
Jack

             reply	other threads:[~2019-06-03 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-03 18:39 Jack Hill [this message]
2019-06-05 13:17 ` bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-06  4:46   ` Jack Hill
2019-06-06  7:57     ` Ludovic Courtès
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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