From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be>
Subject: Re: GUIX_LOCPATH in daemon unit file
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:02:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twfwmr1g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <idjziptu73s.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Thu, 7 Jul 2016 11:31:51 +0200")
Hello,
Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:
> Hi Thomas,
>
>> using Guix on Ubuntu, I kept seeing messages “substitute: warning:
>> failed to install locale: Invalid argument” (though apart from this
>> warning, everything seemed to work normally).
>>
>> From a previous thread on this mailing list, I learnt that the
>> problem is that the daemon doesn't have GUIX_LOCPATH set correctly,
>> but I didn't know how to fix
>> this. #guix explained to me that, for systemd users, this can be done
>> by adding "Environment=GUIX_LOCPATH=/root/.guix-profile/lib/locale"
>> to the [Service] section of the guix-daemon.service file. (and
>> probably also installing the necessary locales for root, which I'd
>> already done).
>>
>> Should this environment setting be added to the default
>> guix-daemon.service, or could this break something for other
>> users/distributions (I'm not sure systems other than Ubuntu have this
>> problem?).
>
> I think GUIX_LOCPATH should be set automatically. There are no ill
> effects of having it set when the directory doesn’t exist AFAIK. Also,
> only Guix honours GUIX_LOCPATH (hence the name), so it shouldn’t screw
> up the behaviour of other applications.
>
> This is a problem on all systems where Guix is used as a package
> manager.
>
> What do others think? If it’s okay and my rationalisations above are
> not mistaken I’d like to accept this change.
I agree, please push.
Besides, I wonder if we should add ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ to the binary
tarball. It would add a few MiBs to the tarball, and would only “work”
for people who use one of the few locales it provides; OTOH, that’s
already an improvement for these users.
Thoughts?
Thanks!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-11 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-06 7:51 GUIX_LOCPATH in daemon unit file Thomas Danckaert
2016-07-07 9:31 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-07 11:26 ` Daniel Pimentel
2016-07-07 11:30 ` Daniel Pimentel
2016-07-11 10:02 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-07-17 23:08 ` sbaugh
2016-07-18 5:33 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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