I update glibc from 2.4-r1 to 2.4-r3, and my locale disapper, I have to do localedef -i ru_RU -c -f UTF-8 ru_RU.UTF-8 to fix the problem.
Portage 2.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.0, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -msse -mmmx -m3dnow -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -msse -mmmx -m3dnow -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_ALL="" LINGUAS="en ru" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/evgeniy/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X acl alsa apache2 apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cjk cli crypt cups dlloader doc dri eds emacs emboss encode esd fam fbcon firefox font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas libg++ libwww logrotate mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection sdl session spel spell spl sse ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis xml xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_en linguas_ru userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_fbdev video_cards_vga video_cards_vesa video_cards_nv" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Post the contents of your /etc/locale.gen (or /etc/locales.build) if any, and reopen then.
$ cat /etc/locale.gen # /etc/locale.gen: list all of the locales you want to have on your system # # The format of each line: # <locale> <charmap> # # Where <locale> is a locale located in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ and # where <charmap> is a charmap located in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/. # # All blank lines and lines starting with # are ignored. # # For the default list of supported combinations, see the file: # /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED # # Whenever glibc is emerged, the locales listed here will be automatically # rebuilt for you. After updating this file, you can simply run `locale-gen` # yourself instead of re-emerging glibc. #en_US ISO-8859-1 #en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 #ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP #ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 #ja_JP EUC-JP #en_HK ISO-8859-1 #en_PH ISO-8859-1 #de_DE ISO-8859-1 #de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15 #es_MX ISO-8859-1 #fa_IR UTF-8 #fr_FR ISO-8859-1 #fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15 #it_IT ISO-8859-1
$ cat /etc/locales.build # This file names the list of locales to be built when glibc is installed. # The format is <locale>/<charmap>, where <locale> is a locale from the # /usr/share/i18n/locales directory, and <charmap> is name of one of the files # in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/. All blank lines and lines starting with # are # ignored. Here is an example: # en_US/ISO-8859-1 en_US/ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8 ja_JP.EUC-JP/EUC-JP ja_JP.UTF-8/UTF-8 ja_JP/EUC-JP en_HK/ISO-8859-1 en_PH/ISO-8859-1 de_DE/ISO-8859-1 de_DE@euro/ISO-8859-15 es_MX/ISO-8859-1 fa_IR/UTF-8 fr_FR/ISO-8859-1 fr_FR@euro/ISO-8859-15 it_IT/ISO-8859-1
So... what exactly are you complaining about here? You don't list the locale in either of the files, so you won't get it. You can create any locale later, see 'man locale-gen'. If you want some of them created automatically during emerge, then fix your /etc/locale.gen (and delete the deprecated /etc/locales.build file when done).
>You can create any locale later, see 'man locale-gen'. If you want some of them >created automatically during emerge, then fix your /etc/locale.gen (and delete >the deprecated /etc/locales.build file when done). emerge -pvuD wolrd broke my system, yes, I know about locales.gen, but I knew about that _after_ I broke my system, I should know about this _before_. And I have $echo $LINGUAS en ru and I expect that at least thats language will be supported, including locale generation.
(In reply to comment #6) > and I expect that at least thats language will be supported, > including locale generation. Yeah, so you expect it wrong... Already explained to you above.
>Yeah, so you expect it wrong... Already explained to you above. At now I wrong, but why not handle LINGUAS properly, why not enhance glibc ebuild to handle LINGUAS? why I should edit billions files to force system do simple thing: support russian language. Why not just set LINGUAS and thats all?
Because glibc ebuild never honored LINGUAS and never advertised that it did. Don't know where did you find the idea that it did. Fix you configuration, thanks.
*** Bug 137367 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
