[Bug localedata/18408] Provide software utility to permit user created custom locales

["byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18408

--- Comment #7 from James B. Byrne <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> ---
(In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #6)
> (In reply to James B. Byrne from comment #3)
> > But not on RHEL6 which is what an end user, who only wants to change the
> > date and time format, is likely to know of or to check.
> 
> I believe on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, glibc updates will wipe out
> user-defined locales, so using this functionality might not be a good idea
> after all.

The request is for a utility to ease the production of custom locale files not
for modifications to the standard distributed locale files.  Although that
necessarily could be a consequence.  I have created several custom locales on
CentOS-6 and 7 systems and these have never been disturbed by updates to glibc.
 I cannot see how updates to glibc could have that effect as customised locales
are unknown, and therefore invisible, to the glibc update process.

I suppose if the changes to glibc involved a complete restructuring of the
directory locations then that might have the effect of disabling any customised
locales, but I cannot see that destroying them.

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