I tried this. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but it doesn't shrink the locale-archive at all. After I try to remove them, and then try to list it again, it shows only a few locales, so it looks like they got removed, but locale-archive is still the same size. I even checked the one on the build system, just to check if it maybe removed it from the build system, not from the install tree, but they are both unchanged.
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Martin Gracik
----- "David Cantrell" <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Chris Lumens wrote:
>
> >>> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 99158752 Aug 23 14:05
> usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
> >>
> >> My understanding is that we need this when changing to another
> locale, for
> >> basic character set stuff and glibc messages.
> >
> > Right.
> >
> >> We should reduce it to only those locales listed in lang-table
> using
> >> localedef. That way we start with the one on the system and reduce
> it down to
> >> what is supported at install time.
> >
> > Yes, reducing it is what I want to do. A long time ago, we ran
> > build-locale-archive during upd-instroot to generate the
> locale-archive
> > file for just those locales we support in anaconda. We quit doing
> that
> > at some point. Now I just need to figure out if it's still possible
> and
> > if so, how we go about doing it.
>
> I just threw this together, but it's incomplete:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import os
> import subprocess
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
> cwd = os.getcwd()
> langtable = os.path.realpath(cwd + "/data/lang-table")
> cur = os.path.realpath(cwd + "/locale-archive")
> new = cur + ".new"
>
> langs = map(lambda y: y[3].replace('.UTF-8', '.utf8'),
> map(lambda x: x.split(), open(langtable,
> 'r').readlines()))
>
> proc = subprocess.Popen(["localedef", "-i", cur,
> "--list-archive"],
> stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
> (out, err) = proc.communicate()
>
> remove = list(set(out.split()) - set(langs))
>
> args = ["-i", cur, "--delete-from-archive"] + remove
> proc = subprocess.Popen(["localedef"] + args,
> stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
> (out, err) = proc.communicate()
>
>
> You can see what I was going for. But I cannot figure out how to
> make
> localedef write to a new temporary file (cur). It wants to write to
> /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive regardless of what options I pass. But
> I can
> override it with -i for input. Weird.
>
> --
> David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
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