Bug 1326470

The only supported locale is mr_IN, and it is always UTF-8.

Therefore mr_IN and mr_IN.utf8 are identical.

I agree that we should have exactly the same locales in both cases.

There appears to be a slight difference in the locale-archive versus locale files cases and we need to track that down.

Mike, Any ideas?

To be clear we should either have:

(a) Both mr_IN and mr_IN.utf8 with locale-archive and without.

or

(b) Only mr_IN with locale-archive adn without.

A consistent set of visible locales for both cases outlined in comment #0.

When the archive is created, mr_IN.utf8 is added as a sort of alias for mr_IN.

One can get the same effect for the folder by using symbolic links. 

Like this:

[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ cd /usr/lib/locale/
[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 locale]$ sudo ln  -s mr_IN mr_IN.utf-8[sudo] mfabian のパスワード:
[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 locale]$ locale -a | grep ^mr
mr_IN
mr_IN.utf-8
[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 locale]$ 

I could improve the glibc.spec to package such symlinks for all cases
where this makes a difference.

Another option would be to edit the SUPPORTED file.
For example, for German it contains:

de_AT.UTF-8/UTF-8 \
de_AT/ISO-8859-1 \
de_AT@euro/ISO-8859-15 \
de_BE.UTF-8/UTF-8 \
de_BE/ISO-8859-1 \
de_BE@euro/ISO-8859-15 \
de_CH.UTF-8/UTF-8 \
de_CH/ISO-8859-1 \
de_DE.UTF-8/UTF-8 \
de_DE/ISO-8859-1 \
de_DE@euro/ISO-8859-15 \
de_LU.UTF-8/UTF-8 \
de_LU/ISO-8859-1 \
de_LU@euro/ISO-8859-15 \

For the lines which do not have an encoding before the /, in this case

de_DE/ISO-8859-1 

for example, locale-archive will contain 2 entries, 

de_DE *and* de_DE.iso88591 which is then listed by "locale -a".

But when the folders are used, only the de_DE folder exists.

So either create such symbolic links for all lines in SUPPORTED which do 
not have an encoding before / (a little bit of scripting and macros ...),
*or* edit SUPPORTED to *always* have an encoding before  /, i.e. 
change 

de_DE/ISO-8859-1

into

de_DE.ISO-8859-1/ISO-8859-1

In the latter case, locale archive would list only de_DE.iso88591
and the folder created would be /usr/lib/locale/de_DE.iso88591 so in case
of the folders "locale -a" would list the same.

But in the latter case, the "locale -a" list would be a bit shorter then it used to be because the duplicates would be missing in the list.
Would that cause backward compatibility problems?

If we want the same list as it always was, we could create the symbolic links
to list the duplicates in the folder case as well.

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glibc-2.25.90-27.fc27.x86_64 is still inconsistent.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 27 development cycle.
Changing version to '27'.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle.
Changing version to '29'.

The real solution here is to create the symlinks in /usr/lib/locale that match exactly what the locale-archive is displaying.

Mike, if you get a chance, please feel free to go in that direction to fix this difference between langpacks and locale-archive.

Can we fix this for F31?

*** Bug 1705635 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I think we should add the required aliases to /usr/share/locale/locale.alias (upstream: intl/locale.alias), instead of trying to package symbolic links.

(In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #11)
> I think we should add the required aliases to /usr/share/locale/locale.alias
> (upstream: intl/locale.alias), instead of trying to package symbolic links.

... and possibly remove the locarchive.c alias creation code so that the alias lives only in locale.alias and is computed from SUPPORTED. This would make it easier for downstream since they just update SUPPORTED.

The other option is to have localedef create the alias with a new flag. This is better for end users since they can control adding the alias or not. This option would control adding the alias to locarchive or the files.