Hello, Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:
> Hi Thomas, > >> using Guix on Ubuntu, I kept seeing messages “substitute: warning: >> failed to install locale: Invalid argument” (though apart from this >> warning, everything seemed to work normally). >> >> From a previous thread on this mailing list, I learnt that the >> problem is that the daemon doesn't have GUIX_LOCPATH set correctly, >> but I didn't know how to fix >> this. #guix explained to me that, for systemd users, this can be done >> by adding "Environment=GUIX_LOCPATH=/root/.guix-profile/lib/locale" >> to the [Service] section of the guix-daemon.service file. (and >> probably also installing the necessary locales for root, which I'd >> already done). >> >> Should this environment setting be added to the default >> guix-daemon.service, or could this break something for other >> users/distributions (I'm not sure systems other than Ubuntu have this >> problem?). > > I think GUIX_LOCPATH should be set automatically. There are no ill > effects of having it set when the directory doesn’t exist AFAIK. Also, > only Guix honours GUIX_LOCPATH (hence the name), so it shouldn’t screw > up the behaviour of other applications. > > This is a problem on all systems where Guix is used as a package > manager. > > What do others think? If it’s okay and my rationalisations above are > not mistaken I’d like to accept this change. I agree, please push. Besides, I wonder if we should add ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ to the binary tarball. It would add a few MiBs to the tarball, and would only “work” for people who use one of the few locales it provides; OTOH, that’s already an improvement for these users. Thoughts? Thanks! Ludo’.
