From 97e11209032cb10a40c588c66ebe9f345a85f234 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludovic Courtès Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:16:05 +0100 Subject: gnu: glibc: Do not install all the locales. * gnu/packages/base.scm (glibc)[outputs]: Remove "locales". [arguments]: Remove --localedir argument. Change libc_cv_localedir value to "/run/current-system/locale". Remove 'install-locales' phase. --- gnu/packages/base.scm | 28 +++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) (limited to 'gnu') diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm index 39da8f87e9..e2ec52a45b 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/base.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm @@ -381,25 +381,27 @@ (define-public glibc ;; users should automatically pull Linux headers as well. (propagated-inputs `(("linux-headers" ,linux-libre-headers))) - ;; Store the locales separately (~100 MiB). Note that "out" retains a - ;; reference to them anyway, so there's no space savings here. - ;; TODO: Eventually we may want to add a $LOCALE_ARCHIVE search path like - ;; Nixpkgs does. - (outputs '("out" "locales" "debug")) + (outputs '("out" "debug")) (arguments `(#:out-of-source? #t #:configure-flags (list "--enable-add-ons" "--sysconfdir=/etc" - (string-append "--localedir=" (assoc-ref %outputs "locales") - "/share/locale") + ;; Installing a locale archive with all the locales is to + ;; expensive (~100 MiB), so we rely on users to install the + ;; locales they really want. + ;; + ;; Set the default locale path. In practice, $LOCPATH may be + ;; defined to point whatever locales users want. However, setuid + ;; binaries don't honor $LOCPATH, so they'll instead look into + ;; $libc_cv_localedir; we choose /run/current-system/locale, with + ;; the idea that it is going to be populated by the sysadmin. + ;; ;; `--localedir' is not honored, so work around it. ;; See . - (string-append "libc_cv_localedir=" - (assoc-ref %outputs "locales") - "/share/locale") + (string-append "libc_cv_localedir=/run/current-system/locale") (string-append "--with-headers=" (assoc-ref %build-inputs "linux-headers") @@ -476,11 +478,7 @@ (define-public glibc "") (("exec @PERL@") "exec perl")))) - (alist-cons-after - 'install 'install-locales - (lambda _ - (zero? (system* "make" "localedata/install-locales"))) - %standard-phases)))) + %standard-phases))) (inputs `(("static-bash" ,(static-package bash-light)))) -- cgit v1.2.3