Consider parallel execution in locale-gen

[Daniel Farina]

In cases where one wants to produce a system image with a lot of locales supported (e.g. supporting a number of collations for user selection in various programs), it's easiest to generate a ton of locales. However, locale generation is easily the slowest step of such a image/debootstrap, by a rather lot.

It looks like Arch Linux has both inherited locale-gen and decided to patch it up to support parallel execution, some speed gains, so there's some prior art here:

  https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36955

Looks like Gentoo patched it up a couple of years ago:

  http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/extra/locale/locale-gen

[C.Schmidbauer (csgc)]

Any update on this? The code can be found on Github at the moment: https://github.com/gentoo/locale-gen

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Unlike when this bug was originally submitted, the locales-all package is now available in Ubuntu. I can think that locales-all is the reasonable package for a case like the one in the bug description.

Maybe I'm missing something.