From bbcc81a9841f2619e1b9e13b25a941337489a681 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dennis Camera <cdist@dtnr.ch>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 21:44:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [type/__update_alternatives] Fix for non-English locales

Since update-alternatives(1) is localized, screen scraping its output breaks
if the locale is set to non-English.
---
 cdist/conf/type/__update_alternatives/explorer/alternatives | 4 ++--
 cdist/conf/type/__update_alternatives/explorer/path_is      | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cdist/conf/type/__update_alternatives/explorer/alternatives b/cdist/conf/type/__update_alternatives/explorer/alternatives
index ecc62f4b..bb1619a9 100755
--- a/cdist/conf/type/__update_alternatives/explorer/alternatives
+++ b/cdist/conf/type/__update_alternatives/explorer/alternatives
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/sh -e
 
-update-alternatives --display "${__object_id:?}" 2>/dev/null \
-    | awk -F ' - ' '/priority [0-9]+$/ { print $1 }'
+LC_ALL=C update-alternatives --display "${__object_id:?}" 2>/dev/null \
+| awk -F ' - ' '/priority [0-9]+$/ { print $1 }'
diff --git a/cdist/conf/type/__update_alternatives/explorer/path_is b/cdist/conf/type/__update_alternatives/explorer/path_is
index 9208df7b..5cf4fa4b 100755
--- a/cdist/conf/type/__update_alternatives/explorer/path_is
+++ b/cdist/conf/type/__update_alternatives/explorer/path_is
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh -e
 
-path_is="$( update-alternatives --display "${__object_id:?}" 2>/dev/null \
-    | awk '/link currently points to/ {print $5}' )"
+path_is=$(
+    LC_ALL=C update-alternatives --display "${__object_id?}" 2>/dev/null \
+    | awk '/link currently points to/ { print $5 }')
 
 if [ -z "$path_is" ] && [ -z "${__cdist_dry_run+dry run}" ]
 then