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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

  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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