Re: Autobuilder locale setup

[James Troup <james@nocrew.org>]

"Adam Conrad" <adconrad@0c3.net> writes:

> Roger Leigh wrote:
>> 
>> This works fine when the locales exist for each localisation, but if
>> they don't exist, it defaults to C locale/US-ASCII charset.  Can the
>> autobuilders guarantee a full set of generated locales, or is only C
>> available?
>
> Autobuilders don't even have "locales" installed by default, as it's
> non-essential, so you certainly can't count on any specific locales being
> there, no.  You can, however, generate the locales that you need and make
> them available to you during your package build, with some trickery.  See
> debian/locale-gen in the gcc-3.2 source package, for instance.

However generating *all* locales is going to be excessively painful
for slower architectures and it'd be nice if it wasn't done unless
absolutely necessary.

-- 
James