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* Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package
@ 2014-02-12  7:12 Mark H Weaver
  2014-02-12 13:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
  2014-03-23 16:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 23+ messages in thread
From: Mark H Weaver @ 2014-02-12  7:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

Hello all,

The 'bash' in the glibc package is handicapped in at least two ways:

* It can't set the locale, because it looks for locales in
  /nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-intermediate-2.18-locales

* It can't look up anything from NSS, such as passwd data, because it
  tries to load the modules from
  /nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-intermediate-2.18

There are two problems that need to be addressed, I think:

* Users could easily end up with this handicapped 'bash' as their
  primary bash, if they installed (or upgraded?) 'glibc' since the last
  time I installed 'bash'.  This happened to me, for example.

* Some (most?) programs in Guix that launch subprocesses with the shell
  use this handicapped one.  For example, every time I run 'w3m', it
  prints two warnings about 'sh' being unable to set the locale.

Any suggestions about how we should address these problems?

     Thanks,
       Mark

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2014-02-12  7:12 Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package Mark H Weaver
2014-02-12 13:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-02-12 17:39   ` Mark H Weaver
2014-02-12 19:31     ` Andreas Enge
2014-02-12 20:33       ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-02-12 21:33         ` Mark H Weaver
2014-02-13  9:14           ` Andreas Enge
2014-03-23 16:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-23 20:19   ` Mark H Weaver
2014-03-23 20:27     ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-24  3:31       ` Mark H Weaver
2014-03-28 13:48         ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-24  3:55       ` Optimizing union.scm Mark H Weaver
2014-03-24 13:45         ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-25  7:04           ` Mark H Weaver
2014-03-25 17:18             ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-25 22:30               ` Mark H Weaver
2014-03-25 22:58                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-27  7:09                   ` Mark H Weaver
2014-03-27  9:57                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-02 14:14             ` Optimizing ‘guix package’ Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-02 16:58               ` Mark H Weaver
2014-03-26 23:29   ` Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package Ludovic Courtès

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