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From: fei huang <daniel.huangfei@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Lost most locales after glibc upgrade
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:13:04
Message-Id: 5cd9791d0606191905l7a2e92bdlf51fb8fcd6227cbc@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Lost most locales after glibc upgrade by Alexander Skwar
1 On 6/19/06, Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name> wrote:
2 >
3 > fei huang wrote:
4 > >
5 > >
6 > > On 6/19/06, *Alexander Skwar* <listen@×××××××××××××××.name
7 > > <mailto:listen@×××××××××××××××.name>> wrote:
8 > >
9 > > Alexander Kirillov wrote:
10 > >
11 > > > I've lost most of them locales after upgrade to glibc-2.3.6-r4.
12 > >
13 > > You'll need to create a /etc/locale.gen file. After that, read
14 > >
15 > > man 5 locale.gen
16 > > man 8 locale-gen
17 > >
18 > > and run /usr/sbin/locale-gen
19 > >
20 > > > I don't have userlocales flag set either.
21 > >
22 > > As there *is* no such flag, there's really no need to set it.
23 > >
24 > >
25 > > there IS a userlocales flag available for the previous version,
26 >
27 > So, there IS no such flag available for the current version, ie.
28 > the version, the OP is about.
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30
31 thank you! actually I was just wondering about the missing flag with the
32 new version before reading this post.
33
34 > seems
35 > > not working though,
36 >
37 > Worked very well, when there used to be such a flag. At least on
38 > my systems it worked very well.
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43 > I set the USE flag, but locale -a still list nearly
44
45 > > everything.
46 >
47 > Did you create a /etc/locales.build file?
48
49
50 yep, I have solved that problem, cause my locales.build is there though,
51 syntax is not correct. I have replaced it with the locale.gen. now it works!
52
53 > the latest r4 version ignore this flag somehow.
54 >
55 > Yes, as I said: There IS no such flag as "userlocales". But you're right,
56 > this flag is ignored - just like other non-existant flags.
57 >
58 > Anyway, the solution is to create a /etc/locale.gen file and run
59 > locale-gen.
60 >
61 > Alexander Skwar
62 > --
63 > Would it help if I got out and pushed?
64 > -- Princess Leia Organa
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68 >