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author | AndersonTorres <torres.anderson.85@protonmail.com> | 2020-12-13 16:23:59 -0300 |
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committer | AndersonTorres <torres.anderson.85@protonmail.com> | 2020-12-16 18:04:34 -0300 |
commit | 4526fe98044e760390f253c146d8e9790ef285f7 (patch) | |
tree | bd8cd63a4ee9b400ed035c02487beec212f891c5 /doc | |
parent | 7113b40fb35e4073df2e84d30e59eadcb95cd3de (diff) |
Convert locales from DocBook to CommonMark
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/builders/packages/index.xml | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/builders/packages/locales.section.md | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/builders/packages/locales.xml | 13 |
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/doc/builders/packages/index.xml b/doc/builders/packages/index.xml index c7a4aa9f47dc..e1ddfd276e20 100644 --- a/doc/builders/packages/index.xml +++ b/doc/builders/packages/index.xml @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ <xi:include href="ibus.xml" /> <xi:include href="kakoune.section.xml" /> <xi:include href="linux.section.xml" /> - <xi:include href="locales.xml" /> + <xi:include href="locales.section.xml" /> <xi:include href="nginx.section.xml" /> <xi:include href="opengl.section.xml" /> <xi:include href="shell-helpers.section.xml" /> diff --git a/doc/builders/packages/locales.section.md b/doc/builders/packages/locales.section.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e5a037004818 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/builders/packages/locales.section.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +# Locales {#locales} + +To allow simultaneous use of packages linked against different versions of `glibc` with different locale archive formats Nixpkgs patches `glibc` to rely on `LOCALE_ARCHIVE` environment variable. + +On non-NixOS distributions this variable is obviously not set. This can cause regressions in language support or even crashes in some Nixpkgs-provided programs. The simplest way to mitigate this problem is exporting the `LOCALE_ARCHIVE` variable pointing to `${glibcLocales}/lib/locale/locale-archive`. The drawback (and the reason this is not the default) is the relatively large (a hundred MiB) size of the full set of locales. It is possible to build a custom set of locales by overriding parameters `allLocales` and `locales` of the package. diff --git a/doc/builders/packages/locales.xml b/doc/builders/packages/locales.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 44fdef034e77..000000000000 --- a/doc/builders/packages/locales.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" - xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" - xml:id="locales"> - <title>Locales</title> - - <para> - To allow simultaneous use of packages linked against different versions of <literal>glibc</literal> with different locale archive formats Nixpkgs patches <literal>glibc</literal> to rely on <literal>LOCALE_ARCHIVE</literal> environment variable. - </para> - - <para> - On non-NixOS distributions this variable is obviously not set. This can cause regressions in language support or even crashes in some Nixpkgs-provided programs. The simplest way to mitigate this problem is exporting the <literal>LOCALE_ARCHIVE</literal> variable pointing to <literal>${glibcLocales}/lib/locale/locale-archive</literal>. The drawback (and the reason this is not the default) is the relatively large (a hundred MiB) size of the full set of locales. It is possible to build a custom set of locales by overriding parameters <literal>allLocales</literal> and <literal>locales</literal> of the package. - </para> -</section> |