[systemd-devel] Locale setup for non-shells

[Tomas Mraz]

On Mon, 2017-05-22 at 15:45 +0300, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Nikolai Kondrashov <
> Nikolai.Kondrashov at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone on systemd-devel,
> > 
> > I'm trying to solve a problem of supplying locale settings to non-
> > shell
> > programs acting as login shells in Fedora and RHEL, as described
> > below.
> > 
> > So far it seems the Debian way of doing things will work.
> > 
> > Could you please confirm that the format of locale.conf is not
> > going to
> > change
> > in a way incompatible with what pam_env.so expects?
> > 
> 
> Well, the format of locale.conf is meant to be sourceable by sh/bash,
> so I
> don't expect it to ever change. It's also covered by the official
> "stability promise" [1].
> 
> A better question is what exactly pam_env.so expects... Last time I
> couldn't quite figure out when it wants a key=value file and when it
> wants
> its own special "foo DEFAULT=bar" format, and in fact the manual
> doesn't
> seem to match the actual behavior... Does it autodetect or something?

The 'key=value' format works by accident but I plan to make it official
 one day.

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Tomas Mraz
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