| Summary: | Gentoo Linux Localization Guide doesn't mention locale.gen | ||
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| Product: | [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org | Reporter: | Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) <caster> |
| Component: | Other documents | Assignee: | Docs Team <docs-team> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | kavol |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| URL: | http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3 | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED)
2006-06-18 18:39:58 UTC
(In reply to comment #0) > It mentions only /etc/locales.build and userlocales useflag but not the new > locale.gen way, which is now going to stable with glibc-2.3.6-r4 ... It's still not stable for all arches yet. Sorry, but 0-day bugs like this usually need more time before they can be fixed properly. Please keep that in mind. Besides, I talked with the guy who implemented it (vapier), and he points out that locale-gen will use an existing /etc/locales.build file to create locales, though the ebuild will complain. It will, however, also generate a locale.gen file as well, so that in the future you can start using the new way of locale generation. (In reply to comment #1) > It's still not stable for all arches yet. Sorry, but 0-day bugs like this > usually need more time before they can be fixed properly. Please keep that in > mind. I understand, but until all arches get stable, the already stable arches will have confused users. > Besides, I talked with the guy who implemented it (vapier), and he points out > that locale-gen will use an existing /etc/locales.build file to create locales, > though the ebuild will complain. It will, however, also generate a locale.gen > file as well, so that in the future you can start using the new way of locale > generation. OK. I didn't know, because I was warned there would be an issue [1] before I upgraded the glibc, and after some searching I found [2] which tells you to convert locales manually... so I though this info should be in general localization guide too. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/163517/focus=163517 [2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml?style=printable well, I think that the locale.gen really should be mentioned, because the ebuild complaints may be lost (is there anybody who really reads all the emerge output when installing/upgrading multiple packages?) and the locale.gen which is generated if missing does not mirror the contents of locales.build (wonder if this should be reported as a bug against glibc?) |