[Bob Hilliard]
> This presents a problem for the dict-freedict package, in that a
> xx_YY.utf-8 locale must be available on the build machine. AFAIK
> there is no way to guarantee that a specific locale is available on
> the buildds. It would be possible for debian/rules to generate a
> xx_YY.utf-8 locale, but this would require rules to run as root,
> which is not permissible by policy.
Another idea, which I will contribute to the boot-floppies developers
and Martin Sjögren, is to generate the locales you need, and then set
LOCPATH to pointto its location.
If you set LOCPATH to the equivalent of /usr/lib/locale, and LC_ALL to
the name of the locale you generate, you should get what you want
without being root. Something like this (mostly cut-n-paste from d-i
build system):
# The variables
LOCALE_PATH=/tmp/usr/lib/locale
LOCALE_NAME=en_IN
LOCALE_CHARSET=UTF-8
# Generating the locale
mkdir -p $LOCALE_PATH
localedef -i "$LOCALE_NAME.$LOCALE_CHARSET" -f "$LOCALE_CHARSET" \
"$LOCALE_PATH/$LOCALE_NAME.$LOCALE_CHARSET"
# Using the locale
LOCPATH=$LOCALE_PATH LC_ALL=$LOCALE_NAME.$LOCALE_CHARSET date
This should work just fine as any user.
