At Fri, 28 Mar 2003 00:31:20 +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:52:59PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > [...] > > Currently, our locales package do not remove /usr/lib/locale/<locale> > > and /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive. Glibc locale system looks both > > <locale> dir and locale-archive files to search the current locale's > > database. These locale database can store the generated locales. So > > this means that we can have very old locale entries in these locale > > database. The current locale-archive file accumulates a lot of locale > > database which were generated in the past but the current locales' > > debconf interface does not have such old entries and they are not > > updated. > > > > So the solution is: remove all directories in /usr/lib/locale and > > /usr/lib/locale-archive whenever we reconfigure or install or upgrade > > locales package in each time. > > > > I think simply removal for old locale entries is the best and the > > easiest way. Any comments? > > Yes, I see no reason to choose a harder way.
Thanks, I've now added in locales.postinst: # Update requested locales. Remove all old locale dir and # locale-archive before generating new locale data. if test -z $LEAVE_FLAG; then rm -rf /usr/lib/locale/* /usr/sbin/locale-gen fi Removing all files/dirs might be problem. However at least there is no package to touch /usr/lib/locale on my machine, so I guess it's acceptable. Regards, -- gotom