Why does emerge say /etc/locale.gen needs updating?

[tgp1994]

Greetings everyone,

I'm a little confused at why emerge says, at the end of updating a package, that I need to update /etc/locale.gen. It says that I can read the emerge manpage (section CONFIG FILES), which almost exclusively discusses the protection feature on files/folders within /etc. Apparently I can potentially find a file in there that is similarly named to the file that I need to merge, although no such file can be found (similar to locale). RTFMing has done me no good

Can anyone point me in the right direction to make emerge happy?

[John R. Graham]

Yep. Look under "Configuring Locales" in Chapter 8 of the Handbook.

- John
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[tgp1994]

Thanks for the swift reply john!

I thought I followed that whole guide to the letter, but I just tried it again at the link you gave me. I changed my locale (by the suggestion of locale -a) to read en_US.utf8 UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen, although emerge still reports the same error. Originally, I believe I had it set to en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8.

[GFCCAE6xF]

Have you ran dispatch-conf?

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Relevant part of the handbook: Working with Portage: 4. Additional Portage Tools

[tgp1994]

[John R. Graham]

That's why exact error messages are important. PSYKORGASM picked up on something I didn't but (which I believe) I would have with the exact messages. I should've asked for 'em, though. Glad it's solved.

- John
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[tgp1994]

I appreciate the help from both of you I noticed that my error (or the general gist of it) popped up pretty fast on google when I was typing it in, so hopefully this will help other users with the same issue. I'll try to be more specific next time!