glibc-all-langpacks does not install locales
With a Docker image of:
FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi:8.6-855
and package versions of:
glibc-all-langpacks: 2.28-189.5.el8_6
glibc-langpack-fr: 2.28-189.5.el8_6
I am trying to install 15 or so different languages/locales. If installing all of them is the easiest to achieve I am not overly concerned with disk space.
However the 'glibc-all-langpacks' does not appear to work as documented. The glibc-langpack-x method also doesn't create locales consistently.
See the below for an example:
Installing glibc-all-langpacks
# yum install glibc-all-langpacks # LANG=fr_FR date Mon Jul 4 00:56:36 UTC 2022 # locale -a C C.utf8 POSIX
I would expect the above to allow the fr_FR lang setting to take effect. It only installs a /usr/libc/locale/locale-archive which is seemingly unusable.
Installing just glibc-langpack-fr
# yum install glibc-langpack-fr # LANG=fr_FR date lun. juil. 4 00:55:14 UTC 2022 # LANG=fr_FR.iso885915@euro locale -c charmap LC_CTYPE ISO-8859-15 # locale -a C C.utf8 POSIX fr_BE fr_BE.utf8 fr_BE@euro fr_CA fr_CA.utf8 fr_CH fr_CH.utf8 fr_FR fr_FR.utf8 fr_FR@euro fr_LU fr_LU.utf8 fr_LU@euro
This installs all the FR locales as expected, however not all variants are listed by locale -a, e.g "fr_FR.iso885915@euro".
Installing both glibc-all-langpacks and glibc-langpack-fr
# yum install glibc-all-langpacks glibc-langpack-fr # LANG=fr_FR date lun. juil. 4 01:14:53 UTC 2022 # locale -a C C.utf8 POSIX fr_BE fr_BE.iso88591 fr_BE.iso885915@euro fr_BE.utf8 fr_BE@euro fr_CA fr_CA.iso88591 fr_CA.utf8 fr_CH fr_CH.iso88591 fr_CH.utf8 fr_FR fr_FR.iso88591 fr_FR.iso885915@euro fr_FR.utf8 fr_FR@euro fr_LU fr_LU.iso88591 fr_LU.iso885915@euro fr_LU.utf8 fr_LU@euro french
This installs all the FR locales and 'locale -a' lists them all correctly. However it is also contrary to the documentation which suggests this is redundant and a waste of space, plus the performance impact of installing glibc-langpack-fr instead of glibc-all-langpacks.
- Shouldn't 'glibc-all-langpacks' install all the langpacks and make them available for use?
- Why does installing "glibc-all-langpacks glibc-langpack-fr" list more locale variants than just "glibc-langpack-fr" ?
- Is there a way to install glibc-langpack-x while also getting all the locale aliases listed by 'locale -a' ?
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