[PATCH] Set default lang and create default locale files early

[Will Woods <wwoods@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If you import locale before the file(s) get created, you end up with a
traceback from locale that says:

  Error: unsupported locale setting

And this happens no matter what the locale is.

We used to create the locale files for the default lang in loader, so
now let's have anaconda declare a default locale and build its locale
data before we import locale.
---
 anaconda                |    7 ++++++-
 pyanaconda/constants.py |    3 +++
 pyanaconda/language.py  |    6 +++---
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/anaconda b/anaconda
index 0094ef9..a123bee 100755
--- a/anaconda
+++ b/anaconda
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
 
     # pull this in to get product name and versioning
     from pyanaconda import product
-    from pyanaconda.constants import ROOT_PATH
+    from pyanaconda.constants import ROOT_PATH, DEFAULT_LANG
 
     from pyanaconda import isys
     isys.initLog()
@@ -625,6 +625,11 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     from pyanaconda import vnc
     from pyanaconda import kickstart
 
+    # Write out the default locale before anything imports locale (#731356)
+    deflang, defcode = DEFAULT_LANG.split('.')
+    iutil.execWithRedirect("localedef",
+                           ["-i", deflang, "-f", defcode, DEFAULT_LANG])
+
     import gettext
     _ = lambda x: gettext.ldgettext("anaconda", x)
 
diff --git a/pyanaconda/constants.py b/pyanaconda/constants.py
index 4167f96..9ceeb9b 100644
--- a/pyanaconda/constants.py
+++ b/pyanaconda/constants.py
@@ -87,3 +87,6 @@ relabelDirs  = ["/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts", "/var/lib/rpm", "/var/lib/yum"
 
 ANACONDA_CLEANUP = "anaconda-cleanup"
 ROOT_PATH = "/mnt/sysimage"
+
+# NOTE: this should be LANG.CODESET, e.g. en_US.UTF-8
+DEFAULT_LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
diff --git a/pyanaconda/language.py b/pyanaconda/language.py
index cb90085..f49c041 100644
--- a/pyanaconda/language.py
+++ b/pyanaconda/language.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import string
 import locale
 
 import gettext
-from pyanaconda.constants import ROOT_PATH
+from pyanaconda.constants import ROOT_PATH, DEFAULT_LANG
 import localeinfo
 from simpleconfig import SimpleConfigFile
 import system_config_keyboard.keyboard as keyboard
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ class Language(object):
             self._instLang = value
 
         # If we're running in text mode, value may not be a supported language
-        # to display.  We need to default to en_US.UTF-8 for now.
+        # to display.  Fall back to the default for now.
         if self.displayMode == 't':
             for (lang, info) in self.localeInfo.iteritems():
                 if lang == self._instLang and info[2] == "False":
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class Language(object):
     systemLang = property(lambda s: s._systemLang, lambda s, v: s._setSystemLang(v))
 
     def __init__ (self, display_mode = 'g'):
-        self._default = "en_US.UTF-8"
+        self._default = DEFAULT_LANG
         self.displayMode = display_mode
         self.info = {}
         self.nativeLangNames = {}
-- 
1.7.7.6

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