[Bug 55906] Re: Research the adoption of locale-archive by default
This hasn't been updated for a while, and it remains yet to be demonstrated that not using a locale archive has a significant performance impact. Right now it is done that way to allow locales to be updated/added/removed without building all the others all over again, and to be able to use LOCPATH. ** Changed in: belocs-locales-bin (Ubuntu) Assignee: Martin Pitt (pitti) = (unassigned) Status: New = Won't Fix -- Research the adoption of locale-archive by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/55906 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 55906] Re: Research the adoption of locale-archive by default
I think this is the real rationale, from belocs-locales-bin 2.3.4-2: * sbin/locale-gen: Do not call localedef with --no-archive flag by default. A new --archive command line flag is added. The rationale is that with an archive it is not possible to mix system and user defined locales by setting LOCPATH. -- Research the adoption of locale-archive by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/55906 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 55906] Re: Research the adoption of locale-archive by default
Why does using locale-archive require regenerating all locales on every update? locale-archive is basically equivalent to keeping all the locale data in a single giant file (which can be searched efficiently) rather than in a directory tree. -- Research the adoption of locale-archive by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/55906 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 55906] Re: Research the adoption of locale-archive by default
Removing milestone. This is not release critical at all, and still requires actual benchmarks to verify that the startup time reduction justifies the cost of always regenerating all locales on every update or installation/removal of language support. ** Changed in: belocs-locales-bin (Ubuntu) Target: ubuntu-7.10-beta = None -- Research the adoption of locale-archive by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/55906 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 55906] Re: Research the adoption of locale-archive by default
I've changed my configuration to create a locale-archive by default now, to see what kind of impact it has and any bugs that appear as a result: * Edit /etc/belocs/locale-gen.conf * Change ARCHIVE=no to ARCHIVE=yes * Run sudo locale-gen --purge You should now see only one file (/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive) instead of the list of directories named by locale. -- Research the adoption of locale-archive by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/55906 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
