Issue #4695 has been updated by Luke Kanies.
The original commit is commit:"79dcd33a", and it specifies that the locale is changed to make output easier to parse. Maybe we should make this an option? My guess is that not changing locale will cause some providers to break, given how much they rely on parsing output of commands. How could we test this? Or should we change providers to default to setting locale et al just on their commands? ---------------------------------------- Bug #4695: Puppet should not reset locale http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4695 Author: Mo Morsi Status: Needs design decision Priority: Normal Assignee: Luke Kanies Category: exec Target version: Affected version: Keywords: Branch: Puppet resets various locale related ENV variables to the posix default of 'C' immediately before invoked Kernel.exec to launch an executable (occurs when running a Single_exec in a recipe) http://github.com/reductivelabs/puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/util.rb#L295 The problem is, the python interpreter will attempt to parse these variables to determine the default locale, and if it is set to 'C' (or not set at all as it will default to 'C'), 'None' will be returned, ignoring the true default locale. Thus any python script launched via Single_exec from a puppet recipe will not be able to get the default locale by invoking locale.getdefaultlocale(). This functionality is part of the standard python library and is relied upon by many various Python scripts. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
