On mån, 2015-06-22 at 06:16 -0400, Jan Kurik wrote: > = Proposed System Wide Change: Glibc locale subpackaging = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Glibc_locale_subpackaging > > Change owner(s): > * Mike Fabian <mfabian At redhat DOT com> > * Siddhesh Poyarekar <spoyarek AT redhat DOT com> > * Carlos O’Donell <codonell AT redhat DOT com> > > This change should make it possible to install or uninstall locales > individually. > > == Detailed Description == > Currently the file /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive contains all > locales and is thus huge (103MB). > For small systems (and containers) it would be useful to be able to > install only a small number of locales. > Recently we made it possible to install a small number of locales by > supplying the rpm-macro “_install_langs”, for example > > rpm -i -D _install_langs="en:de_DE" glibc-common.rpm > > will install all English locales and all German locales which start > with “de_DE”, > > rpm -i -D _install_langs="en_US.utf8" glibc-common.rpm > > will install only the en_US.utf8 locale, > > rpm -i -D _install_langs="POSIX" glibc-common.rpm > > will install nothing (but the POSIX/C is still available because it > is builtin into glibc). > > But this approach works only during an Anaconda based install when > Anaconda supplies the _install_langs rpm-macro. > When glibc is updated later, the _install_langs macro will not be > supplied on the command line during the update and the default value > “all” of “_install_langs” from /usr/lib/rpm/macros will be used and > all locales come back during an update. > Therefore, this solution is far from perfect. > It should be made possible to install and uninstall locales > individually, for example by having a separate package for the > locales for each language. Installing such a package would add these > locales to locale-archive, uninstalling it would remove them. Do they really have to modify locale-archive? Can't each package install separate archive files (say, based on the locale name). Packaging optional extra files is a lot easier for me in my work with an xdg-app runtime based on fedora. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc alexl@xxxxxxxxxx alexander.larsson@xxxxxxxxx He's an immortal small-town gentleman spy on his last day in the job. She's a high-kicking belly-dancing journalist from a different time and place. They fight crime! -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
