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Date:      Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:21:06 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6.0 Released
Message-ID:  <20051104202106.GA24755@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051104194130.GA95823@uws1.starlofashions.com>
References:  <436B810A.7040908@FreeBSD.org> <747dc8f30511041033q71048dd3hc6a6cbaca40c2e67@mail.gmail.com> <20051104194130.GA95823@uws1.starlofashions.com>

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On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:41:30PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:33:10PM -0200, Renato Botelho wrote:
> > On 11/4/05, Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> wrote:
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> > > It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of
> > > FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE.  This release is the next step in delivering the
> > > high performance and enterprise features that have been under
> > > development in the FreeBSD 5.x series for that last several years.
> > > Some of the many changes since 5.4 include:
> >=20
> > I'm having some troubles with locale after upgrade to RELENG_6.
> >=20
> > one example, perl warning me about my locale:
>=20
>=20
> There were some issues with a library upgrade at some point, it was
> awhile ago, and the details are hazy.
>=20
> (Please note that I am a different Scott and far less knowledgeable than
> Mr. Long, but I have a need for Japanese and got bitten by this.)
>=20
> There is a port, /usr/misc/localedata that was designed to fix this
> problem.  In your shell's rc file you add
>=20
> PATH_LOCALE=3D/usr/local/share/compat/locale; export PATH_LOCAL
>=20
> (That's for a Bourne style shell, I am not sure of the csh syntax.)
>=20
> That should solve the problem.  As your ports are gradually upgraded,
> the problem should disappear.  (Or you can always do a portupgrade -af,
> which might not be a bad idea, as some other libraries have changed.)

In fact it's strongly suggested that you *do* portupgrade -af, because
*all* libraries changed and you're very likely to run into problems
otherwise.

Kris

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