Linux standalone: Include locale files in the bundle, and generate locale definition files for the locales in use when starting runshell.

Currently only done for utf-8 locales because the charset can easily be
told for those. Other locales don't include the charset in their name.

The locale definition is generated under git-annex.linux/locales.
So, this only works if the user can write there.

If locale generation fails for any reason, it's silently skipped.

The git-annex-standalone.deb installs the bundle under /usr, so this locale
generation won't work for non-root users.

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/standalone/linux/skel/runshell b/standalone/linux/skel/runshell
index 6f6ba8a3e..d6bec7aa3 100755
--- a/standalone/linux/skel/runshell
+++ b/standalone/linux/skel/runshell
@@ -100,11 +100,6 @@ export ORIG_GCONV_PATH
 GCONV_PATH="$base/$(cat "$base/gconvdir")"
 export GCONV_PATH
 
-ORIG_LOCPATH="$LOCPATH"
-export ORIG_LOCPATH
-LOCPATH=/dev/null
-export LOCPATH
-
 ORIG_GIT_EXEC_PATH="$GIT_EXEC_PATH"
 export ORIG_GIT_EXEC_PATH
 GIT_EXEC_PATH="$base/git-core"
@@ -120,6 +115,39 @@ export ORIG_MANPATH
 MANPATH="$base/usr/share/man:$MANPATH"
 export MANPATH
 
+# Avoid using system locales, which may interact badly with bundled libc.
+ORIG_LOCPATH="$LOCPATH"
+export ORIG_LOCPATH
+LOCPATH="$base/locales"
+export LOCPATH
+
+# Generate locale definition files for the locales in use,
+# using the localedef and locale files from the bundle.
+# Currently only utf-8 locales are handled.
+lastlocaleenv=""
+for localeenv in "$LANG" "$LANGUAGE" "$LC_CTYPE" "$LC_NUMERIC" "$LC_TIME" \
+		"$LC_COLLATE" "$LC_MONETARY" "$LC_MESSAGES" "$LC_PAPER" \
+		"$LC_NAME" "$LC_ADDRESS" "$LC_TELEPHONE" "$LC_MEASUREMENT" \
+		"$LC_IDENTIFICATION" "$LC_ALL"; do
+	if [ "$localeenv" != "$lastlocaleenv" ]; then
+		lastlocaleenv="$localeenv"
+		if [ ! -d "$base/locales/$localeenv" ]; then
+			if [ "${localeenv##[!.]*.}" = "utf8" ]; then
+				(
+					rm -rf "$base/locales/$localeenv.new.$$" &&
+					mkdir -p "$base/locales/$localeenv.new.$$" &&
+					# cd to $base since localedef reads files from pwd
+					cd "$base" &&
+					# Run localedef using the bundled i18n files;
+					# use LANG=C to avoid it reading the system locale archive.
+					I18NPATH="$base/i18n" LANG=C localedef -i "${localeenv%%.*}" -c -f UTF-8 "$base/locales/$localeenv.new.$$" &&
+					mv "$base/locales/$localeenv.new.$$" "$base/locales/$localeenv"
+				) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
+			fi
+		fi
+	fi
+done
+
 # Indicate which variables were exported above and should be cleaned
 # when running non-bundled programs.
 GIT_ANNEX_STANDLONE_ENV="PATH GCONV_PATH GIT_EXEC_PATH GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR MANPATH LOCPATH"