This is the master branch of nixpkgs, initially pulled from commit 8debf2f9a63d54ae4f28994290437ba54c681c7b The intent of this repo is to be merged onto nixpkgs master. This will also be of help for https://git.suyu.dev/BoomMicrophone/suyu-nix-test which I will need in order for development (it will also be helpful to know what to do for setting up the environment for the master server. Currently I am focusing on this so I can actually see what is still missing) This repo will be removed once the PR to the nixpkgs github goes through
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Lluís Batlle i Rossell 952bcf5e58 Setting the patch for the glibc locale archive, which addresses some problems
found before:
- programs linked with this glibc, will be able to find its locale-archive
  at LOCALE_ARCHIVE_2_11
- for any problem we forgot to mention, we also add the LOCALE_ARCHIVE
  variable, checked after LOCALE_ARCHIVE_2_11. I don't know a strong reason to
  have it though.
- setuid programs will expect the locale-archive in
  /var/run/current-system/sw/lib/locale, usual path of the locale-archive in
  nixos, and a path that a sysadmin can set pointing to the locale-archive in
  case of non-nixos. setuid programs don't receive the LOCALE_ARCHIVE
  variables.
- non-nixos systems will have a check for the locale-archive in /usr/lib/locale
- the glibc programs 'locale' and 'localedef' may be able to find the proper
  locale-archive too.

We were also considering getting rid of the locale-archive, and using
locale files directly (like Ubuntu seems to do [1]), maybe using the LOCPATH
variable. But this would not solve the problem of localized setuid programs.

All this came after a 'meeting' with niksnut on irc about this.

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/244204/

svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=22977
2010-08-05 21:19:32 +00:00
doc * Make copy-tarballs.sh work on release.nix. 2010-02-05 14:14:43 +00:00
maintainers Merging from trunk. 2010-08-02 15:48:19 +00:00
pkgs Setting the patch for the glibc locale archive, which addresses some problems 2010-08-05 21:19:32 +00:00
COPYING * Applying an MIT-style license to Nixpkgs. 2006-04-25 16:50:34 +00:00
default.nix * For convenience, provide a top-level Nix expression that simply 2007-04-26 14:32:57 +00:00
STABLE * Move stuff. 2005-02-21 16:05:33 +00:00
VERSION * Bump the version. 2010-02-08 09:23:03 +00:00