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From: Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>
Subject: Re: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale on foreign distro
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 14:01:50 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 3 Jun 2019, Jack Hill wrote:

> Hello Guix,
>
> I'm setting up Guix on a foreign distro (CentOS 7). I'm working on getting 
> locales right per section 2.6.1 of the manual. I have installed the 
> guix-locales package in buth my user's and root's profile, and have restarted 
> guix-daemon. However, when I run package installation opterations, I see the 
> following message,
>
> ```
> /gnu/store/q19l04vd2za80mk1845pz7r8cz29qk43-bash-minimal-4.4.23/bin/bash: 
> warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)
> ```

There appears to be two things going on here:

1) The default locale in the provided systemd unit, en_US.utf8, is not 
provided by the glibc-locales package but rather only by the 
glibc-utf8-locales package.

I think the fix for this would be to clarify which package should be 
installed in root's profile when installing on a systemd foreign distro.

2) The quoting in systemd unit is wrong. Changing

```
Environment=GUIX_LOCPATH='/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/lib/locale' LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
```

to


```
Environment='GUIX_LOCPATH=/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/lib/locale' LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
```

fixed the problem.

I'll open bugs for each of these issues.

Best,
Jack