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Re: [PATCH] ldconfig: set LC_COLLATE to C
On 11/27/2017 09:02 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 11/27/2017 05:36 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> A quick brainstorm:
>>
>> * Do nothing. A minimal number of users have broken systems because of collation
>> in their locale breaks certain packages adding known to sort incorrectly entries
>> from their distribution for ld.so.conf.d/.
>>
>> * Switch to C collation and have an unknown number of users with broken systems
>> because they used locale specific sorting for files they added to the
>> ld.so.conf.d/ directory to configure their systems.
>
> We can also enumerate twice and warn if there are any differences.
Are you suggesting a 2 release staged change?
* First release compare both collations, warn on differences.
* Change the release default, and stop warning.
It would not make sense to keep warning after the change.
> Or provide a tool like (glibc-system-check?) which reports this and
> could be extended over time to also check for use of deprecated
> features/APIs and so on.
Would we use the tool to block upgrades?
Detect /etc/ld.so.conf.d/* file names that would sort differently
given the current locale and C locale, and return non-zero with
a warning?
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Cheers,
Carlos.