Archlinux locale configuration broken

[troy engel]

The method for configuring the locale information for Arch is incorrect; it's writing "LANG=lang.CP CP" to /etc/locale.gen which should just be "lang.CP CP" (no foo=bar) as a naked line. The LANG= is to be written to /etc/locale.conf instead.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cloud-init-dev/cloud-init/trunk/view/head:/cloudinit/distros/arch.py#L47

Provider (Rackspace) generated config value:

# grep ^locale /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/10_rackspace.cfg
locale: en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

== Existing code ==

# cat /etc/locale.gen
# Created by cloud-init v. 0.7.6 on Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:23:26 +0000
LANG="en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8"

# locale-gen
Generating locales...
  LANG="en_US.UTF-8"...character map file `UTF-8"' not found: No such file or directory
cannot open locale definition file `LANG="en_US': No such file or directory

== Manually fixed ==

# cat /etc/locale.gen
# Created by cloud-init v. 0.7.6 on Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:23:26 +0000
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

# locale-gen
Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.

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The attached patch takes a stab at correcting arch.py, however I'm not a Python coder so YMMV. Based on the existing code, it seems to be expected the Provider always specify "lang.CP CP" for 'locale' in the cloud.cfg file(s) so this patch is based on that expectation, using split() looking for the space and peeling off the first element for /etc/locale.conf setup.

[Alexander E. Patrakov (patrakov-gmail)]

Downstream (Arch) asked me to ping this bug, it is still valid.

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/841

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

This bug is believed to be fixed in cloud-init in version 21.2. If this is still a problem for you, please make a comment and set the state back to New

Thank you.

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/2510