(PATCH) force LANG=C for selinux load policy

(PATCH) force LANG=C for selinux load policy

[haruo.tomita-g3qfMnKXm6lL9jVzuh4AOg]

Hi Harold,

Using Japanese ja_JP.UTF-8 environment, 
the characters in load selinux policy message are garbled.
This simple patch mainly adds force LANG=C to selinux load policy.

Kind regards,
Haruo.

--- dracut-010/modules.d/98selinux/selinux-loadpolicy.sh.orig   2011-05-31 14:36:34.000000000 +0900
+++ dracut-010/modules.d/98selinux/selinux-loadpolicy.sh        2011-05-31 14:38:44.000000000 +0900
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@

 # FIXME: load selinux policy.  this should really be done after we switchroot

+# We can't Japanese on normal console at boot time, so force LANG=C.
+if [ "$LANG" = "ja_JP.UTF-8" ]; then
+    LANG=C
+fi
+
 rd_load_policy()
 {
     # If SELinux is disabled exit now--
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Re: (PATCH) force LANG=C for selinux load policy

[Harald Hoyer]

On 31.05.2011 10:19, haruo.tomita-g3qfMnKXm6lL9jVzuh4AOg@public.gmane.org wrote:
> Hi Harold,
> 
> Using Japanese ja_JP.UTF-8 environment, 
> the characters in load selinux policy message are garbled.
> This simple patch mainly adds force LANG=C to selinux load policy.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Haruo.
> 
> --- dracut-010/modules.d/98selinux/selinux-loadpolicy.sh.orig   2011-05-31 14:36:34.000000000 +0900
> +++ dracut-010/modules.d/98selinux/selinux-loadpolicy.sh        2011-05-31 14:38:44.000000000 +0900
> @@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
> 
>  # FIXME: load selinux policy.  this should really be done after we switchroot
> 
> +# We can't Japanese on normal console at boot time, so force LANG=C.
> +if [ "$LANG" = "ja_JP.UTF-8" ]; then
> +    LANG=C
> +fi
> +
>  rd_load_policy()
>  {
>      # If SELinux is disabled exit now

Hmm, why are the messages garbled? Is the console not set up correctly?

RE: (PATCH) force LANG=C for selinux load policy

[haruo.tomita-g3qfMnKXm6lL9jVzuh4AOg]

> Hmm, why are the messages garbled? Is the console not set up correctly?

I think that the console's being not able to display Japanese is a cause 
though the language setting is Japanese.
Therefore, force LANG=C set with dracut.
Is there something a good idea?
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RE: (PATCH) force LANG=C for selinux load policy

[haruo.tomita-g3qfMnKXm6lL9jVzuh4AOg]

> This is too strict.  Is this only for Japanese? 

Umm perhaps No.
I think that I garble excluding Japanese. For instance, Chinese...

> On some system there's
> also suffix “utf8” instead of “UTF-8”.  Why not just uncoditionally
> LANG=C and/or LC_ALL=C before specific commands?

It thought about the influence of an overwrite of LC_ALL of LANG.
I think that set LANG=C without checking the language.