On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 07:40:54PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Thu, 2019-09-05 at 18:19 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 07:08:27PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote: > > > It seems to happen because both debian & fedora (30+) containers do > > > not have the required locale. > > > I'd like to ask your suggestion on how to proceed here: > > > - Shall we explicitly include glibc-langpack-en as part of the base packages? > > > - Its dependencies are: glibc, glibc-commonl > > > - Its size is: 6.0 M (on Fedora 30); > > > - Shall we work around osinfo-db tests in a way that we can make it > > > work without setting the locale? > > > > In theory C.UTF-8 is our desired locale, but that is a non-standard > > concept that is only carried as a downstream patch by certain distros. > > Upstream glibc has not accepted it. It doesn't exist at all on *BSD. > > Thus we picked en_US.UTF-8 as the only option that gives us UTF-8 > > which is portable across all known operating systems. > > > > If you can't set the locale, the only option is to mandate python > > 3.7 as the minimum python version, which I think is too strict. > > > > IOW, we shoud just intall the langpack. > > Sounds like a reasonable enough explanation to me. > > > FWIW, I'm proposing the exact same en_US.UTF-8 env var for libvirt > > python code, so we'll need to deal with the same problem shortly > > there too. > > When talking to Fabiano about this, I suggested we might want to add > the locale to the 'base' pseudo-project along with tools like git and > patch, and reading the above seems to confirm that's indeed the > direction we should go. Yeah, definitely get it installed for everything at once. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ Libosinfo mailing list Libosinfo@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libosinfo
