add locale management

README.md

@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passe
       roles:
          - role: SphericalElephant.common
            common_basic_packages: ['vim', 'zsh'],
+           common_locales:
+             - name: en_US.UTF-8
+             - name: en_US
+             - name: en_US.ISO-8859-15
+             - { name: de_AT, state: absent }
+           common_locales_default: C.UTF-8
            common_mailer: False,
            common_resolvconf_nameservers: ['1.2.3.4', '2.3.4.5']
 

defaults/main.yml

@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ common_apt_repositories:
   - "deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian {{ ansible_distribution_release }}-backports main contrib non-free"
   - "deb http://security.debian.org/ {{ ansible_distribution_release }}/updates main contrib non-free"
 common_apt_upgrade_policy: ""
+
+common_locales: []
+common_locales_default:
+
 common_resolvconf_hnfqdn: true
 common_resolvconf_nameservers: []
 common_resolvconf_domain: ""

tasks/locales.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+---
+
+- name: set locales
+  locale_gen: name="{{ item.name }}" state="{{ item.state | default('present') }}"
+  with_items: "{{ common_locales }}"
+  tags: ['common', 'locales']
+
+- name: set default locale
+  lineinfile: dest="/etc/default/locale" regexp="LANG=" line="LANG={{ common_locales_default }}"
+  when: common_locales_default
+  tags: ['common', 'locales']

tasks/main.yml

@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 - include: resolvconf.yml
 - include: apt.yml
 
+- include: locales.yml
+  when: common_locales
+  tags: ['common', 'locales']
+
 - name: set vim as default editor
   alternatives: name=editor path=/usr/bin/vim.basic
   when: ansible_distribution == 'Debian' or ansible_distribution == 'Ubuntu'