From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
To: Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GUIX_LOCPATH in daemon unit file
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 11:31:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <idjziptu73s.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160706.095103.2037769423207614861.post@thomasdanckaert.be>
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.
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-07 9:32 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 [this message]
2016-07-07 11:26 ` Daniel Pimentel
2016-07-07 11:30 ` Daniel Pimentel
2016-07-11 10:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-17 23:08 ` sbaugh
2016-07-18 5:33 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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