all messages for Guix-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
To: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Preparing for the libc/locale upgrade
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:17:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKrPhPP82B0X0pdkXvD4TAEQ7pdaqQ17AETmcR0HdqTAkYtMrg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

[...]

> Consequences for Guix on foreign distros:
>
>   • If the host distro provides binaries that use libc < 2.22 and you
>     use a mixture of Guix-provided and distro-provided programs, this is
>     pretty bad.
>
>     Solution: unset LOCPATH and say goodbye to locales for Guix-provided
>     packages (setting LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale would break
>     all the distro-provided programs), or use exclusively Guix-provided
>     programs, or use the “C” locale.

Does this means that Guix on other distributions is no longer of
interest to the Guix project and it is essentially unsupported?

Or is this a transitory situation and an acceptable solution is being
worked on?

Regards,
Fede

             reply	other threads:[~2015-09-28  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-28  9:17 Federico Beffa [this message]
2015-09-28 20:45 ` Preparing for the libc/locale upgrade Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-30 12:35   ` Federico Beffa
2015-09-30 13:46     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-30 15:53       ` Federico Beffa
2015-10-01 21:58         ` [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-02  0:06           ` Mark H Weaver
2015-10-02 16:52             ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-03 22:20               ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-03 22:56                 ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-10-04  8:09                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-04 17:04                 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-10-05 14:38                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-04  8:32           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-10-04  8:39             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-10-04 12:32               ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-04 16:56                 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-10-05 14:35                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-05 15:38                     ` Federico Beffa
2015-10-05 19:39                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-05 21:09                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-06  6:29                         ` Federico Beffa
2015-10-01 21:58         ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: glibc: Honor 'GUIX_LOCPATH' Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-01 21:58         ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: glibc: Look for locale data in versioned sub-directories Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-01  7:02     ` Preparing for the libc/locale upgrade Konrad Hinsen
2015-09-29 14:32 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-09-29 16:12   ` Federico Beffa
2015-10-01 19:57   ` Leo Famulari
2015-10-01 20:36     ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-09-24 19:25 Ludovic Courtès

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CAKrPhPP82B0X0pdkXvD4TAEQ7pdaqQ17AETmcR0HdqTAkYtMrg@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=beffa@ieee.org \
    --cc=guix-devel@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.