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Re: Can we distribute pre-built locales to speed up image generation?



Quoting Charles Plessy (2023-08-01 09:43:59)
> Hello everybody,
> 
> In the course of generating singularity/apptainer Debian images at work,
> I wanted to make all locales available to the users.
> 
> Running locale-gen on everything from /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED only
> adds ~60 Mb to the image, which is small compared to the image total
> size and the available storage in my use case.  However, generating all
> of them at image creation time is by far the most time-consuming and
> earth-heating stage.
> 
> The description of the locales package mentions that in the past they
> were distributed pre-built.  I was wondering if it was recently
> considered to provide pre-built locales again, either in a separate
> package or in one of the system images that we distribute, in the
> interest of embracing language diversity.
> 
> It has been a long time I have not posted here, and I am not subscribed
> at the moment.  Please CC me!

Are you perhaps looking for the package locales-all?

 - Jonas

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