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Subject: Re: Why does glibc provide bash?
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:

> I=E2=80=99ve pushed an attempt for it in wip-core-updates, specifically t=
his
> commit:
>
>   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?h=3Dwip-core-updates&=
id=3De0a33ce07b56111329575b0ccc90c9c314fbd221
>
> The trick is simply to not copy the =E2=80=98bash=E2=80=99 binary to libc=
 (not sure why
> I didn=E2=80=99t do it this way from the start.)
>
> Mark: WDYT?  I think it solves the problem at hand and it=E2=80=99s a rea=
sonably
> simple solution.

I=E2=80=99ve pushed that solution in =E2=80=98core-updates=E2=80=99.

> (The branch is called =E2=80=98wip-=E2=80=99 because the glibc upgrade ha=
ppens to cause
> troubles: since it has new locale category elements, the locale data is
> incompatible with that older libcs expect, which means the bootstrap
> binaries fail with an assertion failure when trying to load the new
> locale data, like:
>
>   xz: loadlocale.c:130: _nl_intern_locale_data: Assertion `cnt < (sizeof =
(_nl_value_type_LC_COLLATE) / sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_COLLATE[0]))' faile=
d.
>
> I=E2=80=99m looking for a fix a will otherwise postpone the upgrade.)

Still looking into it...

Ludo=E2=80=99.