Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add glibc-locales variants for older versions of glibc.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> * gnu/packages/base.scm (make-glibc-locales, make-glibc-utf8-locales): New
> procedures.
> (glibc-locales): Express in terms of make-glibc-locales.
> (glibc-utf8-locales): Express in terms of make-glibc-utf8-locales.
> (glibc-locales-2.27, glibc-utf8-locales-2.27): New variables.

This is for the benefit of people who run Guix on top of a foreign
distro.  On a Guix system people can simply use the “locale-libcs” field
of their operating system declaration, but on a foreign distro there is
no way to install a locales package for older versions of glibc.

This patch generates variants for version 2.27 and overrides the name so
that both “glibc-locales” and “glibc-locales-2.27” can be installed into
the same profile.  (Without the name override that’s not possible.)

-- 
Ricardo