On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 12:19 +0000, Tom K wrote: > I've IgnorePkg'd glibc until I can get my head around the new testing > version, and what it's going to do to my systems. A look inside the > package tells me that /usr/sbin/locale-gen will be run on install, but > I'm a bit stuck on what locale-gen does. I can see that it's going to > look for /etc/locale.gen, which I don't have, and I can also see that > it's going to rm -rf all the existing locale data. > > So how does locale-gen create new locales without /etc/locale.gen?
locale.gen is included as empty file with some documentation in the package. You have to edit the file to include the locales you want (read frontpage about how it works and about the bugs in the documentation inside the file). After editing the file, run locale-gen to generate the locale archive with the locales you enabled in /etc/locale.gen. The only thing glibc will do on upgrades is running locale-gen to update the locale archive with new locales that belong to the new glibc version. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
