Issue #4695 has been updated by Daniel Capo Sobral.

This is a very serious issue for me. Postgresql databases on Debian are 
initialized to the locale used to install it, which means they get ASCII as 
their locale. The only way to change that is to completely remove the database 
and initialize it again, and any other locale other than UTF-8 mandates that 
all tables be created with the exact same locale.

So, the consequence, to me, is that I cannot install Postgresql through Puppet 
-- a very serious limitation on my environment.
----------------------------------------
Bug #4695: Puppet should not reset locale
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4695

Author: Mo Morsi
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: exec
Target version: 
Affected Puppet 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.

Reply via email to