Issue #11860 has been updated by Daniel Pittman.

Category set to exec
Status changed from Investigating to Accepted
Priority changed from Normal to Urgent
Target version set to Telly
Affected Puppet version set to 2.7.0

Kelsey Hightower wrote:
> Not sure of any good solution for this one, outside of making this sort of 
> thing configurable or exposing an attribute on the service provider.

Actually, the right solution is that Puppet should only mess with the language 
for *internal* use, not for external commands.

Right now we use the same code path to execute commands that our providers run, 
some of which need to parse the textual output of external commands, and for 
that purpose this is a reasonable state of play.

The very, very wrong thing we do, though, is that we mess with this for things 
run by, eg, the `exec` provider.  That is hugely rude to end users, not least 
because it says that our taste in language is more important than theirs - not 
an intentional message, but still.

Unfortunately, splitting this out between the internal and external uses of the 
`Puppet::Util.execute` method is painfully hard, which means that we should 
target this at Telly.  That way we don't have potentially breaking changes for 
users during a stable release, much as I would prefer to avoid that outcome.

I can't put a timeline on this, but it is a very high priority for the platform 
team to fix this.
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Bug #11860: Puppet ovewriting the LANG environment variable.
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11860

Author: Marek Marek
Status: Accepted
Priority: Urgent
Assignee: 
Category: exec
Target version: Telly
Affected Puppet version: 2.7.0
Keywords: 
Branch: 


As far as I can see puppet is changing system's LANG environment variable - 
this causes unexpected bahaviour of applications that use this setting (as LANG 
is different when you run /etc/init.d/foo stop/start/restart, and different 
when service is restarted by puppet!). 


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