Bug 91235
Summary: | RFE: kickstart does not allow to set LANG=POSIX or LANG=C | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Andreas Luik <andreas.luik> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.2 | ||
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-07-24 23:48:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Andreas Luik
2003-05-20 09:35:22 UTC
I asked around and couldn't find anyone who could give me a reason why you would want to do this :) What problem are you trying to solve that requires this setting? I guess you are asking why I would like to kickstart-install our machines with LANG=POSIX instead of en_US? Because all of our Linux and Unix systems (Solaris, HP-UX, etc) are installed with POSIX being the default. You can recognize the difference immediately, if you look at the sorting order of "ls -a" output (i.e. the LC_COLLATE specification is different in POSIX and en_US): pascal:/tmp/dir(15)> env LANG=POSIX ls -a . .. .cshrc .login FILE bin lib pascal:/tmp/dir(16)> env LANG=en_US ls -a . .. bin .cshrc FILE lib .login The latter order is not what I want, because it is not Unix-ish. BTW, I cannot see a reason to NOT add "POSIX" and/or "C" to the list of languages accepted by anaconda. Do you? Thank you for explaining your requirements. I will forward this request to an engineer. Saying that you're using the POSIX locale doesn't give enough boundaries on what things like console font and the like should be. If you want to use POSIX for your default language and are using kickstart, just change /etc/sysconfig/i18n in %post |