Bug#138468: locale warnings while extracting base
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 16:28, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 04:14:01PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 16:02, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > > When I test these settings on my installed system, it appears
> > > that Perl is unhappy with the `@utf-8' part of LC_CTYPE. Is
> > > this a valid locale, or are the boot-floppies blowing smoke?
> >
> > It is a valid locale, but only while you are running in the installation
> > root filesystem. After reboot, or if you chroot somewhere else, it will
> > stop being valid. I suspect that debootstrap may be running afoul of
> > the latter by chrooting into /target in order to configure these
> > packages.
>
> What is the advantage over `C'? Why is it only valid on the
> installation root filesystem?
"C" uses the ASCII character set, not UTF-8. By definition, a locale is
only valid if it is present in /usr/lib/locale. The files for C@utf-8
are created by rootdisk.sh and only exist in that one filesystem.
p.
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