From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,
Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ldconfig: set LC_COLLATE to C
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <765daa9b-bddc-48e7-5839-468f6fe75ffd@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd00b45a-3eb4-8979-56ad-da6e0caa1560@redhat.com>
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.
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.
Thanks,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-27 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-26 11:32 Aurelien Jarno
2017-11-27 8:48 ` Rical Jasan
2017-11-27 9:23 ` Aurelien Jarno
2017-11-27 9:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-27 16:21 ` Joseph Myers
2017-11-27 16:36 ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-11-27 17:02 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2017-11-27 17:15 ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-11-27 17:16 ` Florian Weimer
2017-11-27 17:28 ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-11-27 20:35 ` Aurelien Jarno
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