Hello all,
The 'bash' in the glibc package is handicapped in at least two ways:
* It can't set the locale, because it looks for locales in
/nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-intermediate-2.18-locales
* It can't look up anything from NSS, such as passwd data, because it
tries to load the modules from
/nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-intermediate-2.18
There are two problems that need to be addressed, I think:
* Users could easily end up with this handicapped 'bash' as their
primary bash, if they installed (or upgraded?) 'glibc' since the last
time I installed 'bash'. This happened to me, for example.
* Some (most?) programs in Guix that launch subprocesses with the shell
use this handicapped one. For example, every time I run 'w3m', it
prints two warnings about 'sh' being unable to set the locale.
Any suggestions about how we should address these problems?
Thanks,
Mark
