Hi Jack, Jack Hill <jackh...@jackhill.us> skribis:
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> I honestly don’t see how it could be clearer: >> >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Locales >> >> Could you propose a patch to this section? > > I think what is missing is a statement that the systemd unit for > guix-daemon on foreign distos runs guix-daemon with a locale that is > only provided in glibc-utf8-locales. > > I clairification could be something like, "The provided unit for > running guix-daemon on a foreign distribution configures the daemon to > run with a local that is only provided in > glibc-utf8-locales. Therefore, glibc-utf8-locacles should be installed > in root's profile, or the unit should be configured to use a locale of > your choosing." ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ is embedded in the ‘guix’ package (the binary tarball), such that even if you don’t install it, “en_US.utf8” is available to ‘guix substitute’ & co. However, IIUC, the problem is with the Bash used by libexec/guix/substitute, is that right? Thanks, Ludo’.
