Re: locale -a missing on Alpine Linux?

On 2022-11-16 We 14:25, Tom Lane wrote:
> Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net> writes:
>> ## Peter Eisentraut (peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com):
>>> First of all, is this a standard installation of this OS, or is perhaps 
>>> something incomplete, broken, or unusual about the current OS installation?
>> Alpine uses musl libc, on which you need package musl-locales to get
>> a /usr/bin/locale.
>> https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86/musl-locales
> Ah.  And that also shows that if you didn't install that package,
> you don't have any locales either, except presumably C/POSIX.
>
> So probably we should treat failure of the locale command as okay
> and just press on with no non-built-in locales.


malleefowl is a docker instance (mostly docker images is what Alpine is
used for). It would be extremely easy to recreate the image and add in
musl-locales, but maybe we should just leave it as it is to test the
case where the command isn't available.


cheers


andrew


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