[katello-devel] Setting a user's preferred locale via cli

[Tom McKay]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lukas Zapletal" <lzap at redhat.com>
> To: katello-devel at redhat.com
> Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2012 4:30:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [katello-devel] Setting a user's preferred locale via cli
> 
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 11:19:47PM -0700, Michael McCune wrote:
> > no way todo it now but it wouldn't be that hard to add.  Just file
> > an RFE and we can triage it appropriately.  patches happily
> > accepted
> > :)
> >
> 
> Well, why to introduce new option when you can do this in UNIX:
> 
> LC_ALL=fr katello environment list
> 
> What CLI does it sends this locale to the server so the Katello
> server
> returns all data in French (well not data but all constants there).
> It should also switch over to French in this case (for all messages
> and
> column names for example - CLI is localized of course).
> 
> You have discovered a bug, Og. While it should work, what we do in
> our
> source code base is we always get system's default locale (in my case
> English). So we do not take user's setting into effect.
> 
> So I filed new bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845198
> 
> We will not introduce new option you recommend (if you filed a RFE
> please close it), but we will rather fix this one. Then it should
> work
> the usual way (e.g. if I as Czech ssh into a box with English system
> locale, ssh in the default configuration will switch my environment
> to
> Czech, so Katello CLI will work in Czech for me).
> 
> Nice find, especially when your default one is English (I guess :-)
> 
> LZ
> 
> --
> Later,
> 
>  Lukas "lzap" Zapletal
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Disagree that this is not worth a RFE. Just like in the UI, where the user may override the default browser locale, a --locale option would allow the user to override the systems default locale. I am voting for the RFE.