[Bug 1265126] Re: Consider parallel execution in locale-gen

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: glibc (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Consider parallel execution in locale-gen

Status in glibc package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In cases where one wants to produce a system image with a lot of
  locales supported (e.g. supporting a number of collations for user
  selection in various programs), it's easiest to generate a ton of
  locales.  However, locale generation is easily the slowest step of
  such a image/debootstrap, by a rather lot.

  It looks like Arch Linux has both inherited locale-gen and decided to
  patch it up to support parallel execution, some speed gains, so
  there's some prior art here:

    https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36955

  Looks like Gentoo patched it up a couple of years ago:

    http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-
  bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/extra/locale/locale-gen

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