Re: Changes to rpmstrate (or localedrake?) for zh_TW

2007/2/12, Pixel <pixel-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>:
> pablo-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] writes:
>
> > Currently I think all the locales in the LANGUAGE variable of all
> > requested languages are concantened together; and all packages for all
> > of those locales are installed.
> > So the behaviour should be changed to:
> >
> > * for each requested language do:
> >       * look at its LANGUAGE variable, and install packages for
> >         the first matching locale (it may be different locales for
> >         different packages)
>
> currently it's not done that way at all, since it can't work for
> mozilla-firefox-*. we do:
>
> for each package do:
>    * if it requires locales-xxx, select it iff that locales is
>    selected
>
> we'll have to change one day, so that rpmsrate format can be
> simplified and get rid of clean-rpmsrate. for this, virtual provides
> must be added, even for things like mozilla-firefox-* which do not
> have a main package, only l10n packages (kde-i18n-*, koffice-i18n-*,
> koffice-l10n-* already have a provide)
>
> when it's done, we can replace "mozilla-firefox-de mozilla-firefox-fr"
> to be expanded by clean-rpmsrate into "main-firefox-l10n", and then we
> can do what you suggested
The most wanted behaviour is:
# cat mozilla-firefox.spec
<snip>
Suggests: mozilla-firefox-l10n
# cat mozilla-firefox-l10n-zh_CN.spec
<snip>
Provides: mozilla-firefox-l10n
# urpmi mozilla-firefox
Scanning locales...Done
Package mozilla-firefox suggest following packages to be installed:
mozilla-firefox-l10n-zh_CN (0.2MB to be used)
mozilla-firefox-l10n-fr
Do you want to install it? (Y/n)
# urpmi mozilla-firefox --auto
Note: Following packages is to be installed due to mozilla-firefox
suggests mozilla-firefox-l10n:
mozilla-firefox-l10n-zh_CN, mozilla-firefox-l10n-fr