locale available in mock build for python package %check

[Barry Scott]

I'm looking at getting the %check of the pysvn package working.

What I'm seeing is the tests fail because of an issue with python3.9 and locales.

The test code uses locale.getdefaultlocale() to find out what can be set and uses
locale.setlocale() to init the locale.

After mock fails to run the %check I do this to investigate:

$ mock -r fedora-33-x86_64 --shell --no-clean
...
<mock-chroot> sh-5.0# locale
LANG=C.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="C.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="C.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="C.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="C.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="C.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="C.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="C.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
<mock-chroot> sh-5.0# python3.9
Python 3.9.0 (default, Oct  6 2020, 00:00:00) 
[GCC 10.2.1 20200826 (Red Hat 10.2.1-3)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license"
for more information.
> >> import locale
> >> locale.getdefaultlocale() 
('en_US', 'UTF-8')
> >> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/locale.py", line 610, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
> >> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'C.UTF-8')
'C.UTF-8'
> >>  
<mock-chroot> sh-5.0# 

I see this from the f33 command line:

$ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 python3.9 -c 'import locale;print(locale.getdefaultlocale())'
('en_US', 'UTF-8')
$ LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 python3.9 -c 'import
locale;print(locale.getdefaultlocale())'
('de_DE', 'UTF-8')
$ LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 python3.9 -c 'import
locale;print(locale.getdefaultlocale())'
('en_GB', 'UTF-8')

Not sure what is wrong here.

python does not report C.UTF-8 as the default.
mock does not have en_US.UTF-8 setup.

Is my way forward to add en_US.UTF-8 locale?
What do I add to the spec file to do that?

Barry

[Tom Hughes]

On 13/12/2020 16:26, Barry Scott wrote:

>  Is my way forward to add en_US.UTF-8 locale?
>  What do I add to the spec file to do that? 
Adding a BuildRequire on glibc-langpack-en will probably do it.

The default build root only has glibc-minimal-langpack which just
gives you the basic C locale.

Tom

-- 
Tom Hughes (tom(a)compton.nu)
http://compton.nu/

[Barry Scott]

>  On 13 Dec 2020, at 16:32, Tom Hughes <tom(a)compton.nu&gt; wrote:
>  
>  On 13/12/2020 16:26, Barry Scott wrote:
>  
> > Is my way forward to add en_US.UTF-8 locale?
> > What do I add to the spec file to do that?
>  
>  Adding a BuildRequire on glibc-langpack-en will probably do it. 
That works great.

Next time pysvn is build the %check will work.

BArry

>  
>  The default build root only has glibc-minimal-langpack which just
>  gives you the basic C locale.
>  
>  Tom
>  
>  -- 
>  Tom Hughes (tom(a)compton.nu)
>  http://compton.nu/
>