Add support for specifying which locales should be copied and generated by update_chroot.sh --locales

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#40 opened on Feb 22, 2023 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 45/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: shell
Domain: cli, devops

Research direction

Start in update-chroot/update-chroot.sh around the --locales flag at line 370 and trace how locale files are copied and generated. Define completion as accepting a list such as en_US, de_DE, and fr_FR while excluding unspecified locales from chroot environments; check the script's existing usage and validation paths for related behavior.

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Description

As it is now, update_root.sh’s --locales flag copies every locale.

$ du -ch /var/www/vhosts/chroot/usr/{share/i18n,share/locale,lib/locale} | grep total
223M    total

Multiply this by hundreds of subscriptions and the disk usage racks up quite a bit.

By adding support for specifying which locales should be copied, any locale not specified will not be copied and generated, reducing disk usage by locales in chrooted environments by an approximated 80 to 90%, if not more, depending on how many locales you specify.

I would like to be able to run update_root.sh --locales en_US de_DE fr_FR or something along those lines to specify which locales should be available in the chrooted environments.

Dominant language: Shell
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