[arch-projects] [initscripts] [PATCH] Setting Locale: fix status reporting FAIL erroneously

[Dave Reisner]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:25:23PM +0200, Kurt J. Bosch wrote:
> Dave Reisner, 2011-06-25 16:27:
> >On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:38:52PM +0200, Kurt J. Bosch wrote:
> >>Dave Reisner, 2011-06-25 15:27:
> >>>On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:17:40PM +0200, Kurt J. Bosch wrote:
> >>>>From: "Kurt J. Bosch"<kjb-temp-2009 at alpenjodel.de>
> >>>>
> >>>>---
> >>>>  rc.sysinit |    2 +-
> >>>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>>diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit
> >>>>index 4073fb9..75f8095 100755
> >>>>--- a/rc.sysinit
> >>>>+++ b/rc.sysinit
> >>>>@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ stat_done
> >>>>
> >>>>  # Flush old locale settings and set user defined locale
> >>>>  status "Setting Locale: ${LOCALE:=en_US}" \
> >>>>-	install -Tm 0755<(echo "export LANG=$LOCALE") /etc/profile.d/locale.sh
> >>>>+	eval 'install -Tm 0755<(echo "export LANG=$LOCALE") /etc/profile.d/locale.sh'
> >>>>
> >>>>  if [[ ${LOCALE,,} =~ utf ]]; then
> >>>>  	stat_busy "Setting Consoles to UTF-8 mode"
> >>>>--
> >>>>1.7.5.2
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>NACK.
> >>>
> >>>As far as I can tell, the eval is not at all necessary.
> >>>
> >>>dave
> >>>
> >>Yes, that's a bit strange. When trying in a terminal it works
> >>without, but when actually booting it doesn't. Maybe some BASH bug?
> >>--
> >>Kurt
> >
> >Works for me. More likely, the problem is the missing whitespace between
> >0755 and the process substitution. No idea why the eval 'fixes' that,
> >though.
> 
> Actually the whitespace *is* there, it just disappeared in this thread.
> >
> >I wouldn't be too keen on cleaning up the locale stuff anyways -- it
> >needs a proper fix. Setting the locale as part of an /etc/profile.d is
> >the wrong thing to do.
> >
> >d
> 
> So maybe this code should be dropped and locale.sh or some other
> config file should be set up manually?
> This way rc.conf would only be responsible for things affecting
> sysinit and daemons, but we would also need something to get rid of
> the CONSOLEMAP hack in set_consolefont().
> 
> --
> Kurt

Yeah, looking back in the thread I noticed that it is indeed there. It's
been an odd day for me and mail, as I attempt to try and setup my
archlinux.org account in my MTA.

So, telinit has an -e flag which seems extremely interesting to me, but
I've yet to see it actually work. I think Tom may have some ideas in
this realm...

d