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bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by de
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Jun 2019 09:57:59 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Jack,
Jack Hill <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> I honestly don’t see how it could be clearer:
>>
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Locales
>>
>> Could you propose a patch to this section?
>
> I think what is missing is a statement that the systemd unit for
> guix-daemon on foreign distos runs guix-daemon with a locale that is
> only provided in glibc-utf8-locales.
>
> I clairification could be something like, "The provided unit for
> running guix-daemon on a foreign distribution configures the daemon to
> run with a local that is only provided in
> glibc-utf8-locales. Therefore, glibc-utf8-locacles should be installed
> in root's profile, or the unit should be configured to use a locale of
> your choosing."
‘glibc-utf8-locales’ is embedded in the ‘guix’ package (the binary
tarball), such that even if you don’t install it, “en_US.utf8” is
available to ‘guix substitute’ & co.
However, IIUC, the problem is with the Bash used by
libexec/guix/substitute, is that right?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros, Jack Hill, 2019/06/03
- bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/06/05
- bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros, Giovanni Biscuolo, 2019/06/05
- bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros, Jack Hill, 2019/06/06
- bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros, Giovanni Biscuolo, 2019/06/06
- bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/06/06
- bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros, Jack Hill, 2019/06/06
- bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/06/07
- bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros, Jack Hill, 2019/06/07
- bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros, Giovanni Biscuolo, 2019/06/11
- bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/06/12