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



On Tue, 01 Aug 2023 at 16:43:59 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> In the course of generating singularity/apptainer Debian images at work,
> I wanted to make all locales available to the users.

If you install locales-all, does that do what you want?

> Running locale-gen on everything from /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED only
> adds ~60 Mb to the image

locales-all has Installed-Size: 227M, I don't know why that differs so
much from your estimate.

> I was wondering if it was recently
> considered to provide pre-built locales again, either in a separate
> package

Is locales-all not that package?

    smcv


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