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mesh-catalog/modules/localization/cmd/localization-tools/localization.go
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jochen a8d308d440 localization: locale, time zone and console keymap as one module
One machine ran another time zone and a German console keymap with no record
why. The module writes /etc/locale.conf and /etc/vconsole.conf whole and sets
the zone through a run-once step of its own Go binary (timedatectl, read
back): /etc/localtime is a link the mesh may not write (hq ADR 0012) and a
module may not declare an action (ADR 0005). Tools: localization_get,
_time_zone, _locales, _keymaps (to-be 42 Phase 1).
2026-10-04 12:50:20 +02:00

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package main
// Locale, time zone and console keymap as one module (novox/hq to-be 42 Phase 1, research 027/02:
// the operator's choice of one module for the three). Measured on 2026-10-04, three machines had
// en_US.UTF-8, Europe/Brussels and no keymap, and one had another zone and a German keymap with no
// record why; the module brings every machine to the first.
//
// The locale and the keymap are files the host writes whole. The time zone is not a file the mesh
// may write: /etc/localtime is a symbolic link into the zone database, and the mesh creates no
// symbolic links (ADR 0012). Writing a copy of the zone there instead would leave every tool that
// reads the zone's name from the link (timedatectl among them) answering "n/a", and a module may not
// declare an action (ADR 0005). So the module's own binary is run once by the host, as root, as a
// step (`set-time-zone`, below): it asks the service manager's time daemon to set the zone, which
// makes the distribution's own link — the mesh writes none — and reads it back.
import (
"fmt"
"os"
"regexp"
"sort"
"strings"
)
// What the module declares: its manifest's files and its step's argument, held to these by a test.
const (
MeshLang = "en_US.UTF-8"
MeshZone = "Europe/Brussels"
MeshKeymap = "us"
)
// Settings is the machine's locale, time zone and keymap as its own daemons report them.
type Settings struct {
Locale map[string]string `json:"locale"`
Lang string `json:"lang"`
LangGenerated bool `json:"lang_generated"`
TimeZone string `json:"time_zone"`
LocalRTC bool `json:"rtc_in_local_time"`
NTP bool `json:"ntp_enabled"`
NTPSynced bool `json:"ntp_synchronized"`
Keymap string `json:"console_keymap"`
X11 map[string]string `json:"x11,omitempty"`
// AsDeclared says, for each of the three, whether the machine is what the module declares.
AsDeclared map[string]bool `json:"as_declared"`
}
// Get reads localectl and timedatectl, and whether the locale in force is generated.
func (m *Machine) Get() (Settings, error) {
s := Settings{Locale: map[string]string{}, X11: map[string]string{}}
out, err := m.Out("localectl", "status")
if err != nil {
return s, err
}
lc := ParseLocalectl(out)
s.Locale, s.Keymap, s.X11 = lc.Locale, lc.Keymap, lc.X11
s.Lang = s.Locale["LANG"]
td, err := m.Out("timedatectl", "show")
if err != nil {
return s, err
}
kv := keyValues(td, "=")
s.TimeZone = kv["Timezone"]
s.LocalRTC = kv["LocalRTC"] == "yes"
s.NTP = kv["NTP"] == "yes"
s.NTPSynced = kv["NTPSynchronized"] == "yes"
gen, err := m.Out("locale", "-a")
if err != nil {
return s, err
}
s.LangGenerated = generated(lines(gen), s.Lang)
s.AsDeclared = map[string]bool{
"locale": s.Lang == MeshLang && s.LangGenerated,
"time_zone": s.TimeZone == MeshZone,
"keymap": s.Keymap == MeshKeymap,
}
return s, nil
}
// Localectl is `localectl status` read: the system locale's variables, the console keymap and the
// X11 keyboard settings.
type Localectl struct {
Locale map[string]string
Keymap string
X11 map[string]string
}
// ParseLocalectl reads `localectl status`. The locale's variables continue on lines of their own
// beneath its label; "(unset)" is said as empty.
func ParseLocalectl(out string) Localectl {
l := Localectl{Locale: map[string]string{}, X11: map[string]string{}}
label := ""
for _, raw := range strings.Split(out, "\n") {
line := strings.TrimSpace(raw)
if line == "" {
continue
}
value := line
if k, v, ok := strings.Cut(line, ": "); ok && !strings.Contains(k, "=") {
label, value = strings.TrimSpace(k), strings.TrimSpace(v)
}
if value == "(unset)" || value == "n/a" {
value = ""
}
switch {
case label == "System Locale":
if k, v, ok := strings.Cut(value, "="); ok {
l.Locale[k] = v
}
case label == "VC Keymap":
l.Keymap = value
case strings.HasPrefix(label, "X11 "):
if value != "" {
l.X11[strings.ToLower(strings.TrimPrefix(label, "X11 "))] = value
}
}
}
return l
}
// normal is a locale's name as glibc compares it: the codeset lowercased without dashes, so
// en_US.UTF-8 in a file and en_US.utf8 in `locale -a` are the same locale.
func normal(name string) string {
lang, codeset, ok := strings.Cut(name, ".")
if !ok {
return name
}
mod := ""
if c, at, found := strings.Cut(codeset, "@"); found {
codeset, mod = c, "@"+at
}
return lang + "." + strings.ToLower(strings.ReplaceAll(codeset, "-", "")) + mod
}
func generated(have []string, want string) bool {
if want == "" {
return false
}
for _, h := range have {
if normal(strings.TrimSpace(h)) == normal(want) {
return true
}
}
return false
}
// Zone is the time zone tool's answer.
type Zone struct {
TimeZone string `json:"time_zone"`
Before string `json:"before,omitempty"`
Changed bool `json:"changed"`
Declared string `json:"declared"`
Zones []string `json:"zones,omitempty"`
Count int `json:"zones_matching,omitempty"`
Note string `json:"note,omitempty"`
}
func (m *Machine) zone() (string, error) {
out, err := m.Out("timedatectl", "show", "--property=Timezone", "--value")
return strings.TrimSpace(out), err
}
func (m *Machine) zones() ([]string, error) {
out, err := m.Out("timedatectl", "list-timezones")
return lines(out), err
}
// TimeZone reads the zone, lists the zones matching a word, or sets one. Setting goes through the
// time daemon with sudo -n, which polkit would otherwise refuse to an account without a session.
func (m *Machine) TimeZone(set, match string) (Zone, error) {
z := Zone{Declared: MeshZone}
current, err := m.zone()
if err != nil {
return z, err
}
z.TimeZone = current
if match != "" {
all, err := m.zones()
if err != nil {
return z, err
}
for _, name := range all {
if strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(name), strings.ToLower(match)) {
z.Zones = append(z.Zones, name)
}
}
z.Count = len(z.Zones)
if len(z.Zones) > 200 {
z.Zones = z.Zones[:200]
}
}
if set == "" {
return z, nil
}
all, err := m.zones()
if err != nil {
return z, err
}
if !contains(all, set) {
return z, fmt.Errorf("%q is not a time zone this machine knows (timedatectl list-timezones)", set)
}
z.Before = current
if set != current {
if _, err := m.Root("timedatectl", "set-timezone", set); err != nil {
return z, err
}
after, err := m.zone()
if err != nil {
return z, err
}
if after != set {
return z, fmt.Errorf("the time zone was set to %s and reads back as %s", set, after)
}
z.TimeZone, z.Changed = after, true
}
if set != MeshZone {
z.Note = fmt.Sprintf("the module declares %s; its step sets that zone again whenever the module's bundle changes", MeshZone)
}
return z, nil
}
func contains(list []string, want string) bool {
for _, s := range list {
if s == want {
return true
}
}
return false
}
// Locales is what this machine can, may and does use.
type Locales struct {
Lang string `json:"lang"`
LangGenerated bool `json:"lang_generated"`
Generated []string `json:"generated"`
Enabled []string `json:"enabled_in_locale_gen"`
Available []string `json:"available,omitempty"`
AvailableCount int `json:"available_count"`
}
// Locales reads `locale -a`, the uncommented lines of /etc/locale.gen, and the locales glibc can
// generate (/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED) — listed when a word narrows them, counted otherwise.
func (m *Machine) Locales(match string) (Locales, error) {
l := Locales{Generated: []string{}, Enabled: []string{}}
gen, err := m.Out("locale", "-a")
if err != nil {
return l, err
}
l.Generated = lines(gen)
if conf, err := m.ReadFile("/etc/locale.conf"); err == nil {
l.Lang = keyValues(string(conf), "=")["LANG"]
} else if !os.IsNotExist(err) {
return l, err
}
l.LangGenerated = generated(l.Generated, l.Lang)
if gen, err := m.ReadFile("/etc/locale.gen"); err == nil {
for _, line := range lines(string(gen)) {
if line = strings.TrimSpace(line); !strings.HasPrefix(line, "#") {
l.Enabled = append(l.Enabled, line)
}
}
}
supported, err := m.ReadFile("/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED")
if err != nil && !os.IsNotExist(err) {
return l, err
}
for _, line := range lines(string(supported)) {
name := strings.Fields(line)[0]
l.AvailableCount++
if match != "" && strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(name), strings.ToLower(match)) {
l.Available = append(l.Available, strings.TrimSpace(line))
}
}
return l, nil
}
// Keymaps is the console keymaps this machine has.
type Keymaps struct {
Current string `json:"current"`
Keymaps []string `json:"keymaps"`
Count int `json:"count"`
}
var keymapName = regexp.MustCompile(`^[A-Za-z0-9_.+-]+$`)
// Keymaps lists `localectl list-keymaps`, narrowed to a word when one is given.
func (m *Machine) Keymaps(match string) (Keymaps, error) {
k := Keymaps{Keymaps: []string{}}
status, err := m.Out("localectl", "status")
if err != nil {
return k, err
}
k.Current = ParseLocalectl(status).Keymap
out, err := m.Out("localectl", "list-keymaps", "--no-pager")
if err != nil {
return k, err
}
for _, name := range lines(out) {
name = strings.TrimSpace(name)
if !keymapName.MatchString(name) {
continue
}
if match == "" || strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(name), strings.ToLower(match)) {
k.Keymaps = append(k.Keymaps, name)
}
}
sort.Strings(k.Keymaps)
k.Count = len(k.Keymaps)
if len(k.Keymaps) > 500 {
k.Keymaps = k.Keymaps[:500]
}
return k, nil
}
// SetTimeZoneStep is the module's step, run once by the host as root: the zone set through the time
// daemon when it differs, and read back. It changes nothing on a machine already in the zone.
func (m *Machine) SetTimeZoneStep(zone string) (string, error) {
if zone == "" || strings.HasPrefix(zone, "-") || strings.Contains(zone, "..") {
return "", fmt.Errorf("%q is not a time zone", zone)
}
if _, err := m.ReadFile("/usr/share/zoneinfo/" + zone); err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("%s is not in this machine's zone database: %v", zone, err)
}
current, err := m.zone()
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
if current == zone {
return fmt.Sprintf("the time zone is already %s", zone), nil
}
if _, err := m.Root("timedatectl", "set-timezone", zone); err != nil {
return "", err
}
after, err := m.zone()
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
if after != zone {
return "", fmt.Errorf("the time zone was set to %s and reads back as %s", zone, after)
}
return fmt.Sprintf("the time zone was %s and is now %s", current, zone), nil
}