Bug 11815

Summary:	Cannot install glibc locale.alias in image
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Medium	CC:	JPEWhacker, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, randy.macleod
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	4.99
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)

Description Joshua Watt 2017-07-20 15:00:14 UTC

The current packaging process for glibc causes the /usr/share/locale/locale.alias file to get picked up by the automated locale package generation code in package.bblcass. This results in a package called: glibc-locale-locale.alias, which is not a valid package that can be installed in an image (presumably because it contains a "." ?)

I think it would be ideal if the alias file could be installed by specifying it in the IMAGE_LINGUAS variable (e.g. IMAGE_LINGUAS = "alias")

A Documentation change is probably not strictly necessary, but it might be nice to document how to get the locale.alias file on an image.

Comment 1 Khem Raj 2017-07-20 15:16:00 UTC

This can be packaged into /etc
I think it can be

Comment 2 Joshua Watt 2017-07-20 16:10:09 UTC

IIRC it can be in /etc, but glibc installs it in /usr/share/locale. Would we try to change the location of the file from where glibc places it?

Also, I do have a patch to fix this, I just haven't had time to send it to the mailing list yet.

Comment 3 Khem Raj 2017-07-20 16:12:21 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> IIRC it can be in /etc, but glibc installs it in /usr/share/locale. Would we
> try to change the location of the file from where glibc places it?
> 

thats one way to get the issue resolved.

> Also, I do have a patch to fix this, I just haven't had time to send it to
> the mailing list yet.

please post your patch.

Comment 4 Joshua Watt 2017-07-21 13:10:38 UTC

It turns out that even with my patch, the locale.alias file seems to be ignored (regardless of if it is in /usr/share/locale or /etc). None of the aliased locales show up when I run the locale program, so I want to look into why that is happening.

Comment 5 Randy MacLeod 2021-03-04 16:27:23 UTC

Not seen in years. Reopen if seen.