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

[Tom McKay]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom McKay" <thomasmckay at redhat.com>
> To: "Lukas Zapletal" <lzap at redhat.com>
> Cc: katello-devel at redhat.com
> Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2012 8:06:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [katello-devel] Setting a user's preferred locale via cli
> 
> 
> 
> ----- 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
> >  #katello #systemengine
> > 
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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.

Let's also not forget that this --locale setting will change the user's preference. Thus an admin setting up a users via a script could set that value.

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