[arch-general] locale variables

gt static.vortex at gmx.com
Mon Jun 25 00:52:38 EDT 2012


On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 06:23:47PM +0200, nelsonmarambio at gmx.de wrote:
> > TY for your answer.
> > For now, I use *sdiff* to edit and merge with new *.pacnew* files.
> > I was confused this time because Thunar explorer show me local.gen as a 
> > binary! But this is not the case, so I will merge the two local.gen.
> > 
> 
> Have a closer look to the filename: there is "locale.gen", the plain text file where you uncomment the entries you need. And there is "locale_gen" , really a binary, which you execute after editing the locale.gen.

Actually "locale-gen" resides in /usr/sbin. So Arno wouldn't find it in
/etc.

Also, locale-gen isn't a binary either, it's a shell script.


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