On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:39:56 -0600 Bill Gatliff <[email protected]> wrote:
> The whole "locale thing" is kinda opaque to me, but as I'm
> debootstrapping a grip/armel setup right now I'm dealing with it
> firsthand. So go forth and.... do whatever. :)
1. Strip out translation files to separate packages
2. Only download the translation packages you need
-> you get smaller downloads and less work for the device.
3. Debian gets easier translation updates during a release freeze.
localepurge is not suitable, it fails on 1, 2 and 3 of the criteria
above.
> When I did my debootstrap, the resulting system didn't complain about
> locales at all. Not satisfied with that :), IIRC I installed locales,
> and things got interesting. I've seen these errors before, and I'm
> seeing them now:
>
> ...
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LANG = "en_US"
> are supported and installed on your system.
#!/bin/sh
unset LANG
sudo chroot ...
> It didn't help that the machine OOM'ed when generating the locales with
> dpkg-reconfigure -plow. And localepurge isn't in grip yet.
locaelpurge will not be in Grip - it's cruft. Grip has a genuine
implementation of locale support that supercedes localepurge.
> > Should langupdate be uploaded to Debian experimental?
> >
>
> I think so.
>
> > The alternative is cross-building langupdate for all supported Grip
> > architectures.
> >
>
> I really like keeping everything coupled with Debian proper where
> possible. So I say don't go this route unless you identify a compelling
> reason.
Except langupdate isn't at all coupled with Debian - at least not for
*two* complete release cycles in Debian. That's a long time.
> > One remaining issue is that the TDebs themselves are in a bit of a
> > state in the repository and so my next task is to finish porting
> > em_autogrip to perl from shell and getting the cron job restarted to
> > maintain the Grip repository automatically.
> >
>
> Yea, I've been hitting the repo pretty hard this week---- and generally
> loving what I'm finding there!
Lots more still needs to be done - there are various areas that are in
a bit of a mess.
--
Neil Williams
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