Arch image cloud-init generate a wrong locale.gen file

[nplanel]

cloud-init generate not correctly /etc/locale.gen, like this :

# Created by cloud-init v. 0.7.6 on Thu, 03 Mar 2016 06:25:03 +0000
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

This should be

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 is valid only for /etc/locale.conf I think the confusion comes from here.

[hartwork]

Hi!

The bug is known upstream and in Arch for a long time. It looks like neither of these parties cares enough (and the package and project seem to lack attention in general, see e.g. open Arch bugs on cloud-init). I'm not sure if it's a good idea to patch cloud-init from within image-bootstrap on the fly. Maybe it's time for a community fork of cloud-init at GitHub.

Best, Sebastian

[nplanel]

Daniel Wallace is the last packager of cloud-init : @gtmanfred

[markand]

Happened to me as well.

[hartwork]

Could you elaborate how much of a showstopper this is to you right now? Do you have a workaround in place?

[markand]

To be honest, I don't even know what this is. I've purchased a VPS on French hosting OVH and the Arch Linux image and once I connected to it the /etc/locale.gen conf was srong. But I've just seen it was initialized by cloud init.

Editing the file and re-run locale-gen is fine obviously.

[klausenbusk]

FYI: I opened a PR upstream: canonical/cloud-init#796, hopefully it gets some attention.