Linux & Rants Adam Deacon on 18 Dec 2008 04:47 pm
Yet another Fedora 10 cock-up
Oh poor Fedora, don’t worry we still love you, even if you do keep cocking up. It’s been a hard few months for my favourite distro. First we had the security problem with the gpg key for the updates, then we had the evil dbus update which broken F10, and now we’ve got the odd day-of-the-week bug for the UK.
The bug is simple, according to the gnome clock applet our week starts on a Tuesday. Opps, but that shouldn’t be too much of a problem to change. Digging around the net, I found some references to locale files in /usr/share/i18n/locales. Although they looked correct, I tried changing them anyway. To absolutly no effect. The answer? To recompile glibc-common! Oh for fucks sake, the bug for this has been opened since Novemeber, should I really have to recompile what is a massive RPM, just for this? Why aren’t these files read at login, or better still, why can’t I used system-config-date to change my preferences.
Anyway for those of you who are interested, you can track the bug on bugzilla or Sourceware.
I’m also rebuilding the glibc-common RPM now, if it works, then I’ll post an updated version when it’s finished