[systemd-devel] Locale setup for non-shells

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Mon, May 22, 2017, 16:40 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Hmm, I guess the extended format in ~/.pam_environment is also allowed by
accident? I still use it for setting variables which depend on $HOME or
$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (like the ssh-agent path).

> --

Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>
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