Issue #4695 has been updated by Shish Moom.
For anyone else who finds this page looking for the specific problem of "puppet
can't be used to install postgres", here is a horrible, horrible hack:
<pre>
# normally there would be no need for requires, apt-get
# would take care of it; but in this case we want postgres
# installed with some special options
package { "my-website-which-uses-postgres":
ensure => installed,
require => [
Exec['utf8 postgres'],
]
}
package { "postgresql-9.0":
ensure => installed,
}
exec { "utf8 postgres":
command => "/usr/bin/pg_dropcluster --stop 9.0 main ;
/usr/bin/pg_createcluster --start --locale en_GB.UTF-8 9.0 main",
unless => "sudo -u postgres psql -t -c '\l' | grep template0 |
grep -q UTF",
require => Package['postgresql-9.0'],
path => ["/bin", "/sbin", "/usr/bin", "/usr/sbin"],
}
</pre>
Do be warned that this will mercilessly destroy your entire database if it
isn't in UTF8 mode already :)
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Bug #4695: Puppet should not reset locale
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4695
Author: Mo Morsi
Status: Accepted
Priority: High
Assignee:
Category: exec
Target version: 2.7.x
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.
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