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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Gracefully handle incompatible locale data
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:45:18 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <561D078A.5080307@redhat.com> (Carlos O'Donell's message of "Tue,
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To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
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"Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com> skribis:

> On 09/29/2015 04:08 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com> skribis:

[...]

>> Apart from that, =E2=80=98localedef --list-archive=E2=80=99 simply opens=
 the locale
>> archive (typically /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive, regardless of the
>> =E2=80=98LOCPATH=E2=80=99 environment variable value), so its behavior i=
s unchanged.
>>=20
>> Am I overlooking something?
>
> If the locale-archive is upgraded to the new format with LC_COLLATE chang=
ed
> what happens when you run localedef --list-archive? Does it list zero loc=
ales
> and exit with an exit code of zero?

The patch does not change archive loading; it changes locale data
loading, which is unrelated (loadlocale.c vs. loadarchive.c.)

> - What does localedef --list-archive return?
>
>   - The new LC_COLLATE format will make it's way into the binary locale a=
rchive
>     and that means glibc can't read the locale-archive? Does it fail? exi=
t code?

The patch does not change how locale archives are handled.

I think we=E2=80=99re confusing locale archive and locale data; or am I sim=
ply
missing something?  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.