From e603187044f07b1fb77709182b953867fcc7cc4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marko Myllynen Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:38:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] localedef: Add hint on purpose of --no-archive Indicate why using --no-archive might be a good idea. The issue is that if you create a custom locale with localedef(1) and put it to the locale archive then during the next glibc upgrade the locale archive is updated as well and your custom locale is gone.) Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man1/localedef.1 | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/man1/localedef.1 b/man1/localedef.1 index 765d77051..cfd902b04 100644 --- a/man1/localedef.1 +++ b/man1/localedef.1 @@ -243,6 +243,9 @@ Do not use the locale archive file, instead create .I outputpath as a subdirectory in the same directory as the locale archive file, and create separate output files for locale categories in it. +This is helpful to prevent system locale archive updates to overwrite +custom locales created with +.BR localedef . .TP .BR \-? ", " \-\-help Print a usage summary and exit.