From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jack Hill 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) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36658) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXrtK-0004eu-RL for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:41:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXrtH-0004r8-7q for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:41:04 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57785) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXrtG-0004pi-L3 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:41:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hXrtG-0004Z1-D9 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:41:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36297) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXrsD-0003jL-Qh for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:39:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXrsC-0002Z4-Pi for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:39:57 -0400 Received: from minsky.hcoop.net ([104.248.1.95]:52888) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXrsC-0002Xp-MY for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:39:56 -0400 Received: from marsh.hcoop.net ([45.55.52.66]) by minsky.hcoop.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hXrsB-0006gW-HF for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:39:55 -0400 List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 36076@debbugs.gnu.org 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