[locale-gen]why is de_DE and en_US there by default?

taylorchu · 2011-09-28 23:13:37

I cannot find the code that turns on de_DE and en_US on in PKGBUILD. does anyone know why glibc turns them on?

toofishes · 2011-09-28 23:37:48

Because it won't build without them, or at least needs them for tests.

http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 07409.html

Allan · 2011-09-29 01:29:33

In fact, no locales are enabled by default.... From the glibc PKGBUILD:

  sed -i "s|^|#|g" ${pkgdir}/etc/locale.gen

That comments out every single line in /etc/locale.gen...

taylorchu · 2011-09-29 03:31:19

@allan
I found that line too. but during installation process, locale-gen indeed generates de_DE en_US.

is there any package that might touch /etc/locale.gen ?
i think it is in post_install.

Allan · 2011-09-29 03:41:31

During installation as in a clean Arch install? Which installer? I can only see en_US.UTF8 enabled:
http://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.g … locale.gen

Any further locales are added by the user during configuration.

taylorchu · 2011-09-29 03:51:11

no installer.

this is what i did

chroot_mount
pacman -Sy $packages -root $rootdir
chroot_umount

in the very end of install, it shows

Generating locale...
de_DE.UTF-8...
en_US.UTF-8..

Allan · 2011-09-29 04:01:01

What is your chroot_mount and chroot_unmount doing? As far as I can tell, no package other than glibc runs locale-gen. And even then, glibc does not run it on first install, only when upgraded. So "pacman -Sy --root $rootdir base" does not run locale-gen at all when $rootdir is empty.

taylorchu · 2011-09-29 04:04:22

@allan
i fount it
http://projects.archlinux.org/devtools. … hroot#n224
this is stupid. could someone remove this line?

Allan · 2011-09-29 04:24:31

File a bug report.

taylorchu · 2011-09-29 04:38:28

what is the usage of mkarchroot? maybe it is because: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 07409.html
i am experimenting to write my own "archiso". the current version of archiso uses mkarchroot, which is totally not needed.

Last edited by taylorchu (2011-09-29 04:39:48)

taylorchu · 2011-09-29 05:34:51

https://github.com/taylorchu/archiso/co … 07e2d6abca
https://github.com/djgera/archiso/pull/1
this will make archiso better.
-1 for devtools

Allan · 2011-09-29 07:35:27

taylorchu wrote:

maybe it is because: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 07409.html

That information is several years old and no longer relevant...

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[locale-gen]why is de_DE and en_US there by default?

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