computer-playbook/roles/dev-locales

Locales

This Ansible role manages the system locale configuration by deploying locale.gen and locale.conf, then generating the requested locales.

Description

• Copies your locale.gen template to /etc/locale.gen
• Copies your locale.conf template to /etc/locale.conf
• Runs locale-gen to generate and activate configured locales

Overview

1. Template deployment
   • locale.gen: uncomment or specify the locales you need
   • locale.conf: sets LANG and LANGUAGE environment variables
2. Locale generation
   • Executes the locale-gen command (requires privilege escalation)
3. Idempotency
   • Templates are only reapplied if changed
   • locale-gen only re-runs when the template changes

Features

• Full control over uncommented locales in locale.gen
• Simple override via templates in your role directory
• Works on any system supporting locale-gen