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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-12-10 21:46:59 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-12-10 21:46:59 +0100
commit3141a8bdb35a6df12975d335ee05409fc604ab4c (patch)
treecbd613bf0557113ca1118f7dd4c7a3557601f663 /gnu/system.scm
parentdfb74e50b790c9d31a1ff1f71f93d5230cc03924 (diff)
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gnu: Honor the operating system's locale and timezone.
* gnu/system.scm (etc-directory): Add 'locale' and 'timezone' parameters. Set 'LC_ALL', 'TZ', and 'TZDIR' in /etc/profile. (operating-system-derivation): Adjust call accordingly. * gnu/system/vm.scm (%demo-operating-system): Change locale to 'en_US.UTF-8'. Add TZDATA to 'packages'.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/system.scm')
-rw-r--r--gnu/system.scm15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/system.scm b/gnu/system.scm
index 642e4b275c..0516112553 100644
--- a/gnu/system.scm
+++ b/gnu/system.scm
@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@
guile
bash
(@ (gnu packages dmd) dmd)
- guix)))
+ guix
+ tzdata)))
(timezone operating-system-timezone) ; string
(locale operating-system-locale) ; string
@@ -214,6 +215,7 @@ directories or regular files."
#:inputs inputs)))
(define* (etc-directory #:key
+ (locale "C") (timezone "Europe/Paris")
(accounts '())
(groups '())
(pam-services '())
@@ -238,9 +240,18 @@ GNU dmd (http://www.gnu.org/software/dmd/).
You can log in as 'guest' or 'root' with no password.
"))
+ ;; Assume TZDATA is installed---e.g., as part of the system packages.
+ ;; Users can choose not to have it.
+ (tzdir (package-file tzdata "share/zoneinfo"))
+
;; TODO: Generate bashrc from packages' search-paths.
(bashrc (text-file "bashrc" (string-append "
export PS1='\\u@\\h\\$ '
+
+export LC_ALL=\"" locale "\"
+export TZ=\"" timezone "\"
+export TZDIR=\"" tzdir "\"
+
export PATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/bin:" profile "/bin:" profile "/sbin
export CPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/include:" profile "/include
export LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib:" profile "/lib
@@ -297,6 +308,8 @@ alias ll='ls -l'
(profile -> (derivation->output-path profile-drv))
(etc-drv (etc-directory #:accounts accounts #:groups groups
#:pam-services pam-services
+ #:locale (operating-system-locale os)
+ #:timezone (operating-system-timezone os)
#:profile profile))
(etc -> (derivation->output-path etc-drv))
(dmd-conf (dmd-configuration-file services etc))