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Bug 1668400 - rpmlint needs locale data
Summary: rpmlint needs locale data
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpmlint
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tom "spot" Callaway
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-01-22 16:19 UTC by Jerry James
Modified: 2019-03-29 19:11 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: rpmlint-1.10-22.fc30
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Last Closed: 2019-03-29 19:11:34 UTC
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Github rpm-software-management rpmlint issues 198 0 None closed locale.Error: unsupported locale setting 2020-03-03 21:45:49 UTC

Description Jerry James 2019-01-22 16:19:30 UTC 
Description of problem:
I installed some newly built packages into a mock root, along with rpmlint, then ran mock --shell so I could check the packages.  In the mock shell:

# rpmlint <list of packages> 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rpmlint", line 378, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/rpmlint", line 92, in main
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_COLLATE, '')
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/locale.py", line 604, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

I exited out of the mock shell, installed glibc-langpack-en, and restarted the shell.  Then rpmlint worked.  Either rpmlint should be made to work with the C locale, or it should Requires something to satisfy its need for a locale.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpmlint-1.10-20.fc30.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start with an empty mock chroot
2. Install rpmlint
3. Install any package that does not require a langpack
4. Start a mock shell
5. Run rpmlint on the package installed in step 3

Actual results:
The traceback shown above.

Expected results:
Valid rpmlint output.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Miro Hrončok 2019-03-10 10:44:49 UTC 
rpmlint uses the following:

>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_COLLATE, '')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/locale.py", line 604, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

The git blame for the call is rather big commit: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpmlint/commit/115d640c8d0b13b70d464a25a3401a7011cd369c

LC_COLLATE is for sorting things. Yet the empty call makes it sort based on env variables, e.g. on my machine, this is what I get:

>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_COLLATE, '')
'cs_CZ.utf8'

So if I run mock this is what rpmlint is trying to set, installing English locales won't help me:

$ locale
LANG=cs_CZ.utf8
...
LC_COLLATE="cs_CZ.utf8"
...
LC_ALL=
[FedoraReview (python3)]$ mock -r fedora-rawhide-x86_64 shell
<mock-chroot> sh-5.0# locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=cs_CZ.utf8
...
LC_COLLATE="cs_CZ.utf8"
...
LC_ALL=


So I guess we need to figure out what is this line actually trying to achieve.
Comment 2 Miro Hrončok 2019-03-10 10:47:44 UTC 
So the git blame is actually https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpmlint/commit/6f4af3cd65b0ccdab7455e3fbe8ff9947b979d39

Process installed packages matched by a wildcard in locale's alphabetic order.


I'll open an issue upstream.
Comment 3 Miro Hrončok 2019-03-10 10:56:38 UTC 
A fix: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpmlint/pull/199
Comment 4 Miro Hrončok 2019-03-10 11:22:08 UTC 
Fedora PR: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rpmlint/pull-request/7
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2019-03-10 19:17:28 UTC 
rpmlint-1.10-22.fc30 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-5758e738d2
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2019-03-11 14:41:44 UTC 
rpmlint-1.10-22.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-5758e738d2
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2019-03-29 19:11:34 UTC 
rpmlint-1.10-22.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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