On 06/22/2015 09:01 AM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 06:16 -0400, Jan Kurik wrote: >> 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). > > Please note that this step in implementing the feature will break > deltarpms. Deltarpm requires the *full* data from the original rpm to > be installed in order to build the updated rpm from the deltarpm, so > the fact that we're only installing part of glibc-common will cause any > deltarpms for glibc-common to fail. > > If I understand correctly though, the above is a stepping-stone to > subpackages containing the languages, which will *not* break deltarpms. > > I do think the change is a great idea; I just want to make sure all > involved are aware of this potential pitfall along the way. It was known, but not mentioned, that this would decrease the effectiveness of deltarpm for glibc-common. This step is indeed just a stepping stone to splitting out the packages. Cheers, Carlos. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
