Re: Foreign distro GUIX_LOCPATH errors when installing from manual

[Thomas Danckaert]

From: address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
Subject: Re: Foreign distro GUIX_LOCPATH errors when installing from 
manual
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:07:56 +0200

> > and that the installation instructions say to install glibc-locale 
> > (or
> > some other locale package) in root's profile.
>
> They already say so under “Application Setup”, but maybe that 
> should be
> made more prominent?

The section does not explicitly tell to install these locales also 
for root.

Perhaps the daemon systemd configuration could be expanded to set a 
specific locale for the Guix build-daemon (currently it uses the host 
systems default locale settings), and a package for only that 
specific locale could be included in the binary tarball, installed in 
root's profile?  I'm not really familiar with the build daemon or 
locales, but I think that it doesn't matter so much which locale is 
set for the build daemon, as long as it is properly configured? (This 
is also related to your question about including glibc-utf8-locales 
in the binary tarball in the parallel thread)

Thomas