derhecht/locale

Chef cookbook to configure the system locale on Linux systems

locale cookbook

Sets the default system locale for this system. You can see which locales are available by running locale -a.

On Debian based systems, this recipe sets the locale by running update-locale and on Fedora, it uses localectl.

On RHEL based systems, the recipe operates on the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file directly because there is no standard command line tool to change the system locale settings.

Deprecation

This locale resource is now shipped built-in with Chef 14.5 or later. This cookbook will continue to function with older chef-client releases, but all updates will now be performed directly in the chef-client codebase.

Requirements

Platforms

• Debian / Ubuntu derivatives
• openSUSE / SUSE Linux Enterprises
• RHEL/CentOS/Scientific/Amazon/Oracle
• Fedora

Chef

• Chef 12.7+

Usage

• Include the cookbook in your metadata.

locale 'set locale' do
  lang 'en_gb.utf-8'
  lc_all 'en_gb.utf-8'
end

Properties

name	type	default value
lang	String	en_US.utf8
lc_all	String	en_US.utf8

Maintainers

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License

Copyright: 2016-2018, Chef Software, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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