Re: glibc-locales

[Efraim Flashner]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 11:53:45AM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> The package glibc-locales and glibc-locales-2.32 are nearly identical
> according to diffoscope.
> 
> (ins)efraim@3900XT ~$ guix shell diffoscope -- diffoscope 
> /gnu/store/ixzmi6614baf4w37qfjgqrv8hwsl8jcv-glibc-locales-2.33 
> /gnu/store/zrq9pr31wl128y6nwyh2022i9jqxazpz-glibc-locales-2.32-2.32
> --- /gnu/store/ixzmi6614baf4w37qfjgqrv8hwsl8jcv-glibc-locales-2.33
> +++ /gnu/store/zrq9pr31wl128y6nwyh2022i9jqxazpz-glibc-locales-2.32-2.32
> │   --- /gnu/store/ixzmi6614baf4w37qfjgqrv8hwsl8jcv-glibc-locales-2.33/lib
> ├── +++ 
> /gnu/store/zrq9pr31wl128y6nwyh2022i9jqxazpz-glibc-locales-2.32-2.32/lib
> │ │   --- 
> /gnu/store/ixzmi6614baf4w37qfjgqrv8hwsl8jcv-glibc-locales-2.33/lib/locale
> │ ├── +++ 
> /gnu/store/zrq9pr31wl128y6nwyh2022i9jqxazpz-glibc-locales-2.32-2.32/lib/locale
> │ │ ├── file list
> │ │ │ @@ -1 +1 @@
> │ │ │ -2.33
> │ │ │ +2.32
> │   --- /gnu/store/ixzmi6614baf4w37qfjgqrv8hwsl8jcv-glibc-locales-2.33/share
> ├── +++ 
> /gnu/store/zrq9pr31wl128y6nwyh2022i9jqxazpz-glibc-locales-2.32-2.32/share
> │ │   --- 
> /gnu/store/ixzmi6614baf4w37qfjgqrv8hwsl8jcv-glibc-locales-2.33/share/doc
> │ ├── +++ 
> /gnu/store/zrq9pr31wl128y6nwyh2022i9jqxazpz-glibc-locales-2.32-2.32/share/doc
> │ │ ├── file list
> │ │ │ @@ -1 +1 @@
> │ │ │ -glibc-locales-2.33
> │ │ │ +glibc-locales-2.32-2.32
> │ │ ├── /gnu/store/8fpk2cja3f07xls48jfnpgrzrljpqivr-coreutils-8.32/bin/stat {}
> │ │ │ @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
> │ │ │
> │ │ │ -  Size: 36               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   directory
> │ │ │ +  Size: 46               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   directory
> │ │ │  Links: 1
> │ │ │  Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    
> root)
> │ │ │
> │ │ │  Modify: 1970-01-01 00:00:01.000000000 +0000
> │ │ ├── /gnu/store/8fpk2cja3f07xls48jfnpgrzrljpqivr-coreutils-8.32/bin/stat {}
> │ │ │ @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
> │ │ │
> │ │ │ +  Size: 46               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   directory
> │ │ │ -  Size: 36               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   directory
> │ │ │  Links: 1
> │ │ │  Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    
> root)
> │ │ │
> │ │ │  Modify: 1970-01-01 00:00:01.000000000 +0000
> 
> 
> So while it would be nice to build glibc-locales-2.32 with glibc-2.33 I
> don't think it's actually in use anywhere since IIRC we jumped from 2.31
> to 2.33.
> 
> Also, for 2.33 I'd like to build it with glibc-final. glibc-locales
> doesn't retain a reference to any packages and it would reduce an
> instance of using an "extra" glibc when there's already one in the build
> environment.

I misread the source. I'd like glibc-utf8-locales built with glibc-final.
glibc-locales actually rebuilds the sources with an extra patch. I
suppose another option would be to use glibc-locales to build
glibc-utf8-locales.


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